Polly is utterly unaware. Some other character (I can’t remember who) says she is the ONLY person who is unaware. Edit: from Chapter 13: after the visit of the Montdores to Alconleigh (during which they break the shocking news about Polly's desire to marry Boy), Aunt Sadie shares the news with Fanny and Davey, and says, 'Just imagine, Sonia, who had completely lost control of herself (not that I blame her), sort of hinted to me that Boy had once been her own lover.' 'Darling Sadie, you are such an innocent,' Davey said, laughing. 'It's a famous love affair which everybody except you has known about for years. I sometimes think your children are right and you don't know the facts of life.' 'Well, all I can say is, I'm thankful I don't. How perfectly hateful. Do you think Patricia knew?' 'Of course she did and she was only too glad of it. Before his affair with Sonia began, Boy used to make Patricia chaperone all the dismal little débutantes that he fancied, and they would sob out broken hearts on her shoulder, and beg her to divorce him, very last thing he wanted, naturally. She had a lot of trouble with him, you know.' 'I remember a kitchen maid,' Aunt Sadie said. 'Oh yes, it was one thing after another before Sonia took him on, but she had some control over him, and Patricia's life became much more agreeable, until her liver got so bad.' (Copied from the combined volume published by Penguin in 1980 (my copy is a reprint from 1982) to coincide with the Thames TV series, ISBN 0 14 00.5696 3)
I wonder if anyone can tell me who is singing the recording of Les Clochettes at 26.34? I don't think it is Lily Pons as the tempo seems too fast but I may be wrong.
...'Bell Song' from Lakme, by Delibe...a little anachronistic if Lily Pons - Wiki says she did not record it til 1940...apropos of tempo - those wind up gramophones were not accurate...
When a drama critic heard Hedy Lamarr's first lines in the movie "White Cargo", which were: "Me Tondelayo. Me stay.", he stood up in the theatre and said, "Me George Jean Nathan. Me go." ;)
Only because the man has the money in English upper class culture does everyone grovel and obey to these madmen. Otherwise their idiosyncrasies would not be tolerated by anyone.
