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.
pudding bowls and Catholicism
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.