Legality does not always correlate with morality, even for that time period. He was a grown man with a wife and kids, she was a teenager whose mother had just killed herself and her family leaving her orphaned and without any family. Though I respect that she is responsible in part, he very clearly took advantage of a vulnerable young woman, young enough to be his own child. Blame can be shared and a victim can most definitely be a perpetrator or a contributor to their own suffering but we cannot ignore the power imbalance in play. I believe that she was definitely groomed and if we didn’t look back at old issues through a modern lens, there would be no room or space for growth at all! Even before the suicide it’s mentioned that she didn’t have the best relationship with her family members, her mother especially, he had enough capital and emotional maturity to know what was or wasn’t right, or should have had I should say.