V-2nd - Conclusion - questions

[Michael Bailey]

Laura wrote:
> Plot-related, not thematic:
>
> 1.    "He [Stencil the elder] found himself hoping there was indeed adultery between his old 'love' [V.] and the shipfitter [Fausto's father]; if only to complete a circle begun in England eighteen years ago, a beginning kept forcibly from his thoughts for the same period of time.
>    Herbert would be eighteen.  And probably helling it all about the dear old isles.  What would he think of his father ...
>    His father, ha."
>
> V. is Herbert Stencil's mother, no?  But who is his father?  It's implied here that it's not Sydney Stencil.  Was Maijstral Senior present in Florence?
>


wow, that is something I never thought of.  V. is Herbert Stencil's mom?
I'm going to have to read the epilogue more carefully.