Technically, she may be an adulteress, but that's okay because the master's missus is generally crazy, comatose or frigid and she haunts the spooky west wing or moons about the conservatory like a character in one of Edward Gorey's cheeky Gothic cartoons. Truth be told, she's more like a lusty Harlequin Romance heroine yearning to be rescued from both her stays and her staid profession. Like "The Governess," which opened just three weeks ago, "Firelight" fancies its heroine a proto-feminist career gal whose independence must be sacrificed for the family's sake. There's nothing like a British peer to turn a maiden's head, as we discover in "Firelight," the latest in a run of moldy Gothic melodramas in which a poor but accomplished governess not only tames her incorrigible charge, but warms the married but lonely master's empty bed. A business transaction heats up for Stephen Dillane and Sophie Marceau in "Firelight."
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