Thorns and Orange Blossoms

This book was a find from the local library sale–one of the ones I was most excited about. It's an old-fashioned romantic melodrama after the style of Charles Garvice, Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, etc. Violet is a doctor's daughter who has been reared by her eccentric aunt–who has an unreasoning hate for anything and everything aristocratic, because of a disappointment in her past. This aunt has guarded her more fiercely than any Spanish duenna, and her only pleasure apart from her aunt's vigil is her long walks in the woods. So, one day...she meets a young painter at his work, and ventures to offer a critique of his art; the friendship begins there. He is soon fiercely in love with her, but also discovers what her aunt has taught her about hating aristocrats. Is it wrong of him to suppress his family title in order to win her heart? What dreadful consequences might there be?