I think the Doylist explanation here is that Forest decided to start exploring Catholicism in the interval between Falconer's Lure and End of Term, so Mme Orly becomes a representative of a certain sort of severe but sophisticated European Catholicism, as Patrick becomes the representative of English recusancy. But that might be extended to a Watsonian one too, it was only with her second marriage and conversion that she began to adopt more exotic manners, and in her daughters' childhood might have been more of a lump of English hockey-playing &c. herself? Though there's still the Peter's Room detail about her hostility to jodhpurs.
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pudding bowls and Catholicism
Date: 2014-07-25 05:24 pm (UTC)Having encountered the rather soignée Mme Orly in End of Term long before Falconer's Lure, with her horror of great lumps of English hockey-playing schoolgirls (and the irony that only Ginty actually does play hockey--is Ginty's hockey playing ever mentioned elsewhere or does it exist for this joke?) I was very surprised by the pudding-bowl haircuts.
I think the Doylist explanation here is that Forest decided to start exploring Catholicism in the interval between Falconer's Lure and End of Term, so Mme Orly becomes a representative of a certain sort of severe but sophisticated European Catholicism, as Patrick becomes the representative of English recusancy.
But that might be extended to a Watsonian one too, it was only with her second marriage and conversion that she began to adopt more exotic manners, and in her daughters' childhood might have been more of a lump of English hockey-playing &c. herself? Though there's still the Peter's Room detail about her hostility to jodhpurs.