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Hi, .Bookpossum! Thanks for the link; gorgeous!
I did think that people could have talked stupid her. But ultimately, it was just too much for me; it strained my credulity. The one group who didn't seem to want to bello her was her husband's former colleagues. Then, it was their livelihood and it was in their best interest not to cross the brother (and what motivated him? Posthumous revenge for some issue with Maurice?). But a widow's curse? Got something of an eyeroll from me.
And Maurice, one of the many imponderables. Everyone loved him, it seems, and his character was stainless, but also very controlling (but probably not atypically do for that time and place).
I did appreciate the randomness of incident and how the characters were ultimately unknowable,. So it is as we all negotiate our lives.
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