"HEA?" I cannot winkle it out. I have an explication of "HEA," but the forum rules and decorum forbid me to disclose my suspect, or even its feeble substitute. E-mail me if you are curious...
Col. Brandon and Elinor are just right as is, as Jane Austen thought then, and as most of our societies miss today. They are the concept that a man can have a non-related woman friend as important and dear as a sister. This does show throughout literature, even video literature. Consider "Della Street" in
Perry Mason: As a confidential legal secretary, she could be secure in her living, so like Emma Woodhouse, why should she get, or want to get, married? Mason, and their associate Paul Drake, were as close to her as brothers and excellent specimens of manhood, so the only thing she would gain in a marriage is: Well. Not that important and in the long term, not worth it. I wonder Barbara Hale's opinion?
"The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." -Ambassador Kosh Naranek
