Thank you! I should have been more precise; actually I am quite happy with the first section. It's long-written and well polished. It's the rest I'm uncertain of.
The bit where Arelle talks about her reasons for not reconciling with Kera is the conversation I mentioned to you the other day that explains a motivation I had never really fully understood before. Why hadn't she taken refuge with her old friends? It seemed a gap in logic to me; now I know why. I think the reasoning is workable.
BTW, I have been meaning to tell you that I finished the first Flashman book. Thanks for the recommendation; I found it quite enjoyable, although the tone was more serious than I had expected. It occured to me that Flashman is in many ways the antithesis of the men you and I write -- he is cowardly, self-centered, and utterly without honor, yet everything seems to work out to his complete advantage in the end.
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The bit where Arelle talks about her reasons for not reconciling with Kera is the conversation I mentioned to you the other day that explains a motivation I had never really fully understood before. Why hadn't she taken refuge with her old friends? It seemed a gap in logic to me; now I know why. I think the reasoning is workable.
BTW, I have been meaning to tell you that I finished the first Flashman book. Thanks for the recommendation; I found it quite enjoyable, although the tone was more serious than I had expected. It occured to me that Flashman is in many ways the antithesis of the men you and I write -- he is cowardly, self-centered, and utterly without honor, yet everything seems to work out to his complete advantage in the end.