Yes, it's important isn't it, the "people don't mind..." comment. (Though Nicola was capable of feeling sorry for her grandmother for losing four sons in WWI - then again, think her compassion was mentioned as being surprising. And they were her own family.)
I think there might be a clue to Edwin's later behaviour in Mrs Clavering. She can't bear to keep witnessing Rose's distress because of her own grief...and I wonder if something similar explains why Edwin is so remote with his own children (on the top of the fact that he probably has a rather distant fathering style anyway). He must find it very hard to witness their grief.
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Mrs Clavering
Date: 2014-11-28 11:16 am (UTC)I think there might be a clue to Edwin's later behaviour in Mrs Clavering. She can't bear to keep witnessing Rose's distress because of her own grief...and I wonder if something similar explains why Edwin is so remote with his own children (on the top of the fact that he probably has a rather distant fathering style anyway). He must find it very hard to witness their grief.