[Bookpossum]

No doubt our temperaments in part Victoria, and of course whether we enjoy a writer like Greene or not.

Going back to Henry and whether he did love Sarah or not, I think he did love and care for her. The diary entry quoted above implies that it was Sarah who didn’t want a physical relationship with him any more once she got involved with Maurice. He was a gentle man, and wouldn’t have tried to insist on his so-called “conjugal rights”. So he loved her for herself and not for what he could get out of the relationship.

Sarah didn’t want to live and her going out in the rain when she was already sick looks like suicide to me, though no doubt subconscious. She would know it was a sin in the eyes of the church.

ETA: I crossed with you this time issybird, but my iPad must have been on a go slow, looking at the time difference between our posts.