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It's also a very succinct comment on his marriage, if he thinks he'll be alone without Magnus' presence in his life.
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A very good point.
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Originally Posted by issybird
[...]Ultimately, all three main characters in the modern part are highly unlikable, whereas the fourteenth century was populated with good guys and bad guys. Perhaps a point of the scene with the young father and his disabled daughter at the end (I don't have the book any longer and I can't remember his name) was not only to serve as part of the general blight that had taken over the "romantic" past, but as an example of pure, disinterested love. None of the moderns demonstrated that.
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I was trying to work out who in the past you thought were good guys until you mention William (Henry's son) and reminded me of Robbie, Roger's younger brother. Not too many of the others I'd care to know, adulterers and schemers the lot of them!