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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
So the implication is perhaps that Roger's spirit was still there in need of the absolution that only a Catholic, albeit a lapsed one, could give.
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I think du Maurier's playing fast and loose with dogma there, but it's plausible. What didn't work for me was the invocation of "mortal sin" at such a late point in the book/journey. A whole lot of that going on; was Roger more scrupulous in his conscience than the others, given all the instances of murder and infidelity that we saw?
The more usual trope would be that Roger earned his salvation by some positive outcome that came from his acting as guide to Magnus and Dick, but the reverse is true, with Magnus dead and Dick presumably paralyzed and their having had no possibility of affecting events in the past.