"Sense and Sensibility" is an excellent morality play. Lesson #1: The true test of integrity is doing the right thing even when doing so is financially devastating to you. Lesson #2: The true test of class is how one acts in adverse situations. Elinor is the classiest lady I've ever met (in a novel or elsewhere). I'm madly in love with a fictional character! Elinor is not a robot. She has "sensibility" also. She just doesn't wear it on her sleeve.