Awesome / The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

• The climax — Peter meeting Ann Dorland, George Fentiman's psychotic episode, and Dr Penberthy's suicide - is an astonishing bit of writing, with the façades the characters have shown through the story falling away, beautifully worded and with some fine comic touches.
• Lady Dormer's backstory. She told her parents where they could stick their Arranged Marriage, married the man she wanted, and followed that up by running away with him — which involved climbing out of an upstairs window and down a tree in her elaborate crinoline. And to top it all off, she ended up by far the richest of her whole family.

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