Fabulous film. I saw this with my mum and she remembered the attitudes pushed by Emma Thompson towards the end, that girls could have an education, or a husband (and later a career, or a husband). That must have been terribly restrictive to teenage girls like Jenny. They were growing up smart, but were still terrified of ending up as so many single women appeared to them (smart, but also rather estranged from normal ideas about femininity and passionate humanity). And then there's not only David (who values her as pretty and smart) but also Helen who is so glamorous and living the kind of passionate life everyone values as important.

I love the ending to it as well. The way she proves that having been in love with David and been to Paris with him, doesn't mean love and Paris are forever tarnished by bad associations.