Ah - that makes sense (and I take it back, it is at least slightly interesting!) A Catholic background and being interested in faith, but not a practicing Anglican would perhaps explain why she put the detail in, but in a hamfisted way.
Anglo-Catholic Bunter annoys me because I feel it's there solely to set up Helen being annoyed. It's so unnecessary
Indeed. All I can remember that's ever said about Bunter's religious position is when Peter and Miss Murchison are discussing the reliability of the housekeeper's evidence, and Peter says that Bunter, who has been buttering her up and accompanying her to chapel, believes her to be sincerely pious, honest and sensible. Miss Murchison wonders if he's being biased by her chapel-going; Peter says something like "If you'd seen Bunter in his off-duty hours, you'd realise the sight of a hymn-book is about as softening to his heart as whisky to an Anglo-Indian colonel's liver." It's an odd metaphor, but all the same, interpreting this to mean that Bunter spent his off-duty hours as at All Saint's Margaret Street or some similar spiky shrine strikes me as a bit of a stretch...
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Anglo-Catholic Bunter annoys me because I feel it's there solely to set up Helen being annoyed. It's so unnecessary
Indeed. All I can remember that's ever said about Bunter's religious position is when Peter and Miss Murchison are discussing the reliability of the housekeeper's evidence, and Peter says that Bunter, who has been buttering her up and accompanying her to chapel, believes her to be sincerely pious, honest and sensible. Miss Murchison wonders if he's being biased by her chapel-going; Peter says something like "If you'd seen Bunter in his off-duty hours, you'd realise the sight of a hymn-book is about as softening to his heart as whisky to an Anglo-Indian colonel's liver." It's an odd metaphor, but all the same, interpreting this to mean that Bunter spent his off-duty hours as at All Saint's Margaret Street or some similar spiky shrine strikes me as a bit of a stretch...