I mean, to find out whether *he'd* want to stay after the corpse turns up, she has to ask Bunter I don't think I've given due credit to how awkward that must have been for H.: "Hello Bunter, I've just married this man and I can't actually ask him anything."
I'd like to know more about Harriet/Boyes to find out how she emerged far more competent at relationships than Peter My instinct is to put this down to broader issues of personality (starting with "Harriet is more mentally stable"), of which relationships are a sub-set, but that could go on all day! One thing, I think, is that Harriet has less at stake. Peter has got what he desparately wanted after five years, and is terrified of losing it. From his POV, Harriet seems happy with things so far, but he has no confidence that things are going to remain so. After all, Harriet liking him is the anomaly. Harriet, on the other hand, has had five years of Peter telling her that however difficult things are, or irritable she is, and however adverse the circumstances, he still loves her. In some respects, things haven't changed much (another reason that T,D is enormously lacking in that we don't really see Harriet coping with actual change in it, when we plainly should).
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I don't think I've given due credit to how awkward that must have been for H.: "Hello Bunter, I've just married this man and I can't actually ask him anything."
I'd like to know more about Harriet/Boyes to find out how she emerged far more competent at relationships than Peter
My instinct is to put this down to broader issues of personality (starting with "Harriet is more mentally stable"), of which relationships are a sub-set, but that could go on all day! One thing, I think, is that Harriet has less at stake. Peter has got what he desparately wanted after five years, and is terrified of losing it. From his POV, Harriet seems happy with things so far, but he has no confidence that things are going to remain so. After all, Harriet liking him is the anomaly. Harriet, on the other hand, has had five years of Peter telling her that however difficult things are, or irritable she is, and however adverse the circumstances, he still loves her. In some respects, things haven't changed much (another reason that T,D is enormously lacking in that we don't really see Harriet coping with actual change in it, when we plainly should).