Fault Lines. David Pryce-Jones

wrote to Vere: “I loved him more than anyone I have ever known, and for all that time I have always wondered why…. When he decided to get married, I thought the bottom of my life had fallen out, so conceited was I, I imagined that no one understood him like I did.” He repeated himself to Alan, first saying, “You have certainly done wonders for me,” and going on, “As for Uncle Alan why I loved him so I don’t know. From the first moment I saw him from another table in Magdalen Hall, I knew something of a most remarkable kind had entered my life.”