So sorry to have missed the last few weeks. I was on holiday one week with no internet (but lovely chance to read this whole book!*grin from ear to ear* and away working the next week with no time at all. I have enjoyed the wonders of being able to make comments right in the Kindle text and have been commenting like mad. As I read through all of these comments on the first six chapters, I see most of them have been addressed, but these 2. (1) In chapter 1 after Nick and Peter unintentionally go swimming, they are walking back and mention seeing the cutter sailing. Two pages later they see a figure coming toward them and eventually recognize it as Foley. The Old Port is biking distance from the hotel. I don't see how Foley could be sailing in on TALISMAN, having been wrestling the boat in through the storm, moored it, put the sails away, rowed to shore, and walked up the promenade to meet them in something like 10 minutes tops! Also there is no mention of him being wet, if he'd been sailing all night, he'd have been as wet as the kids.
(2) I really like Antequil and hope he appears in the later books. Regarding his "friendship" with Foley, I rather thought that as his father was a fisherman, Robert and father may often have stopped at Mariners to sell some of their catch on their way in from sea. Robert and Lewis being the same age, were probably thrown together."I don't think I can explain more than that. Well—sometimes you find yourself involved with someone with whom you have all the ties of affection and habit, but for whom you have no real liking. Just as you very often like people for whom you have no affection at all." Quite often children get thrown together from disparate worlds because their parents have something in common. Perhaps Robert's father also did maintenance for the Foleys---the fisherman around here are all carpenters in the off-season. Perhaps Foley envied Robert's opportunity and that's how they came to fish together. Several reasonable theories on how they came to be at school together have already been posted. I thought perhaps Foley was kicked out of boarding school and sent to the local grammar because of his "funny" behavior--acting like two different people some of the time, and his propensity towards violence wouldn't earn him many points in school. Or perhaps the Foleys got to know Robert, saw his genius and paid for his schooling.That might better explaing "Robert's faithfulness" to the Foleys, and also some of Lewis's resentment. Hard to like a boy that your father favors more than you.
Foley and Antequil
(2) I really like Antequil and hope he appears in the later books. Regarding his "friendship" with Foley, I rather thought that as his father was a fisherman, Robert and father may often have stopped at Mariners to sell some of their catch on their way in from sea. Robert and Lewis being the same age, were probably thrown together."I don't think I can explain more than that. Well—sometimes you find yourself involved with someone with whom you have all the ties of affection and habit, but for whom you have no real liking. Just as you very often like people for whom you have no affection at all." Quite often children get thrown together from disparate worlds because their parents have something in common. Perhaps Robert's father also did maintenance for the Foleys---the fisherman around here are all carpenters in the off-season. Perhaps Foley envied Robert's opportunity and that's how they came to fish together. Several reasonable theories on how they came to be at school together have already been posted. I thought perhaps Foley was kicked out of boarding school and sent to the local grammar because of his "funny" behavior--acting like two different people some of the time, and his propensity towards violence wouldn't earn him many points in school. Or perhaps the Foleys got to know Robert, saw his genius and paid for his schooling.That might better explaing "Robert's faithfulness" to the Foleys, and also some of Lewis's resentment. Hard to like a boy that your father favors more than you.
Lastly, please explain "headcanon."
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