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I'm on the home stretch now, with about 70 pages to go. I know what you mean about Vera's self-absorption, issybird. And I quite agree at being astonished about her not knowing that Roland had converted to Catholicism. Edward's situation is a bit more understandable I think, given the times. After all, to this day people find it hardest to "come out" to their families in many cases.
Mind you, self-absorption seemed to run in the family, with her father telling her it was time to come home and look after her parents because her mother had gone into a state of nervous prostration. But again, that was what was expected of a young woman at the time, and for many decades afterwards.
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