Madam, Will You Talk?

Just when I'd make up my mind that Charity really was TSTL, she'd do something clever, like drive like a race car driver, or finally manage to trick a Bad Guy. So, maybe my review deserves another half a star, but...
I read most of Mary Stewart's thrillers in high school, and the sexist 50's milieu doesn't hold up for me upon re-reading. [spoiler:] I'm particularly nonplussed by the INSTANT falling in love followed 10 days later by a wedding. Nope.
I do give Stewart props for writing a thriller in which the heroine doesn't wield deus-ex-machina good luck but rather is plagued by rather comprehensively bad luck (albeit plot-moving-forward bad luck) and always manages to aaaaaalmost get away...only to turn the corner and into the arms of her pursuer. That feels more like real life.
Plucky David was my favourite character, and if his father's insta-marriage to Charity means that David gets what he wants too, I guess I can consider it a happy ending. As long as no one offers me a cigarette and orders me to obey orders whilst demeaning my naturally feminine lack of logic. Just sayin'.
Also: my least favourite Mary Stewart title. Whaaa??