While I had seen the 2002 film (Henry Cavill already gorgeous as Albert back then, lol), I finally read the novel only a couple years ago. IMMEDIATELY clocked Eugenie as gay in her introductory scene when she's bitching about the inadequacies of her male prospects, lol, and then of course she's always hanging around her piano tutor 👀 and sure enough she ends up dressing as a man and running off with her. Just gals being pals, right 🤣