To answer your last question first - I'm fairly sure a re-reading won't resolve the issues. I don't think they were meant to be resolved. But I'd re-read it anyway.
I bet Mrs. Marlow wouldn't have approved at all about returning Edward to Switzerland - not because of the moral right or wrong issue, but because of the risks involved. After all, it was technically kidnapping, at least for the older ones. Clearly AF had to get her out of the story, or it couldn't work.
My own view is that it's too late for the law to do any good - whatever the rights and wrongs were 11 years ago, what matters most now is Edward, not his parents. And Edward clearly wants Switzerland, so hard luck Judith. Certainly I'm prejudiced against her because of the thoroughly dirty trick she played getting Edward to come on a visit with no intention of letting him go back. Felix seemed a lot more willing to compromise than Judith, and Judith seems to me to want Edward more for her own sake than his.
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Date: 2007-11-21 01:15 am (UTC)I bet Mrs. Marlow wouldn't have approved at all about returning Edward to Switzerland - not because of the moral right or wrong issue, but because of the risks involved. After all, it was technically kidnapping, at least for the older ones. Clearly AF had to get her out of the story, or it couldn't work.
My own view is that it's too late for the law to do any good - whatever the rights and wrongs were 11 years ago, what matters most now is Edward, not his parents. And Edward clearly wants Switzerland, so hard luck Judith. Certainly I'm prejudiced against her because of the thoroughly dirty trick she played getting Edward to come on a visit with no intention of letting him go back. Felix seemed a lot more willing to compromise than Judith, and Judith seems to me to want Edward more for her own sake than his.