I really think if Maurice had slept with Dickie it would have been very harmful to him.
Yes, I tend to agree. Of the two potential encounters in these chapters, it's not to difficult to argue that the French client might not have been too bad, but looking at Maurice's remorse and disgust at himself for even making that half-veiled pass at Dickie but not going through with it, it's clear that it would have been many times worse had he actually done something.

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