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The trouble with having written a Marlow fic set in their future, is that I badly wanted to know what had happened to the other members of the family, and why. So here is the first in what I hope will be a series, showing my take on what happened to Ginty and Ann. It's a crossover, but I didn't find another reference to it in the archives, so may be quite a rare one.

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slemslempike.livejournal.com

It's really interesting to see your characterisation of Miss Keith as much more reasonable than she gets credit for here in Trennels - and I think also in the text. Do you think she gets a hard time? Yours is the first fic I've seen do that, and I'm really interested in thinking about it.

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mrs-redboots.livejournal.com

I don't think Miss Keith is much more reasonable, but the thing is, she likes Ann, as she had liked Karen before her (and as she had disliked Rowan and Ginty, and dislikes the twins!). And thus she bends over backwards to allow Ann to stay on, whereas Rowan, under similar circumstances, wouldn't have been allowed to return (although possibly Keith would have lent her the money to go, since she did seem to think it was the right thing to do).

Nicola, I discovered when exploring what happens to Peter and Rowan in bed last night, thinks it's horrendously unfair and will eventually say so.

From:

sprog-63.livejournal.com

"Nicola, I discovered when exploring what happens to Peter and Rowan in bed last night, thinks it's horrendously unfair and will eventually say so."

Laughing aloud to myself.

I'm sure I know what you meant by this, but I had a horrified glimpse of sibling/relationships! (Sorry)

From: (Anonymous)

Oops! I totally hadn't seen that (memo to self: proof-read for content as well as typos before posting!).

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mrs-redboots.livejournal.com

Sorry, that was me - hadn't realised I'd somehow got logged out of LJ.

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sprog-63.livejournal.com

I enjoyed this, and had a similar thought about Miss Keith: I like the simplicity of her liking some of them and not others. Though while obviously she dislikes Nicola, I think she is much more in favour of Lawrie - hence the Prosser (she doesn't actually get that Lawrie is the complete antithesis of her own values, so she shouldn't like her, but I think she does).

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mrs-redboots.livejournal.com

Yes - had it been Nicola or (in her day) Rowan who had wanted to go to Ireland, I'm fairly sure Keith's response would have been along the lines of "Very well then; have a nice life!" although she might have lent them the fare as she did Ann. She would probably have bent over backwards to help Karen, but I'm not sure about Lawrie. I just can't see Lawrie in such a situation, no matter what her feelings about the way her family was treating Ginty....

From:

sprog-63.livejournal.com

On the other hand, Miss Keith could justify her approach on the grounds of Ann's responsibility in telling her that she was planning on leaving as compared to those who just run away (Nick and Ginty). Thus if anyone was to challenge her allowing Ann to return it would be on those grounds. Ann does share much of Miss Keith's views ... I assume (or are we told) Edith to be Presbyterian rather than Catholic and the service ethic is as strong in her as in Ann.

From: (Anonymous)

Yes. I remember an occasion at my school when the Headmistress told us that there was no need to run away - if we wanted to go, just say so. "We are not a prison. You are free to leave at any time. You are not free to come back!"

I assumed Keith had said something similar to the school after Esther's little episode, which is why Ann had gone and said. Nick was very much younger when she went to Port Wade, of course, and Ginty - well, in the backstory I didn't write, she told the family she was staying with Monica to mend fences before term began, and headed straight to Ireland, with the family thinking she was staying with Monica, so nobody knew she was missing until term began and there she wasn't.