V (Ch 3) vii

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
"Sir Alastair was
> listening
> to someone play Bach. As if Bach were all that were left." (i.e. Sir
> Alastair appeared to be engrossed in the music, heedless of anything
> and
> everything else, quite forlorn or fatalistic in his general mien.)
> "So that
> he may know." (i.e. Sir Alastair might already know about his
> daughter and
> Goodfellow. i.e. Porpy is speculating on the cause of Sir Alastair's
> sudden
> bout of melancholy being due to his awareness of Victoria's loss of
> maidenhood.

Could Sir Alastair's melancholy mein be due to his anxiety about
Fashoda?  We should not assume he knows of Victoria and Goodfellow.
Everybody seems to be out of sorts about impending war, Sir A included.

Mark

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