I read this when you posted and then realised I hadn't commented - sorry! It's a thoughtful post with wonderful pics once again.
It certainly wasn't pretty - and very hard to read without cringeing for Maurice. I'm not sure how Clive could have got his message across - clearly he was agonising inwardly, with the responsibilities his life entailed pressing more heavily upon him, and in the vain hope Maurice would not play up in exactly the way he did!
The attraction to Ada seems to be a spontaneous kind of elation that there might be a way out for him, like an unrealistic *high*, from which, of course, he came down quickly, unfortunately not without causing subsequent pain to Ada.
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It certainly wasn't pretty - and very hard to read without cringeing for Maurice. I'm not sure how Clive could have got his message across - clearly he was agonising inwardly, with the responsibilities his life entailed pressing more heavily upon him, and in the vain hope Maurice would not play up in exactly the way he did!
The attraction to Ada seems to be a spontaneous kind of elation that there might be a way out for him, like an unrealistic *high*, from which, of course, he came down quickly, unfortunately not without causing subsequent pain to Ada.