Would a man like North have risked that? Why get Daniel discharged from service when he will be on the battlefield and subject to being killed? Isn’t that what North would have wanted? Even the despicable of the world might draw the line at murdering a boy in order to have revenge on a man. To expose Daniel as gay would bring doubt and injury to his own son’s reputation. Indeed, even the good-hearted people don’t seem to be able to pull it off. I would truly like to think that ordinary Englishmen of this period were not so duplicitous and hard-hearted. It was OK, but there was too much that was cliche, too much that was predictable, and too much that seemed to be to be stretching to address issues with modern sensibilities instead of 19th Century ones.
I was excited and expecting to love it, I didn't. Once again, I find myself outside the majority on a book.
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