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All of chapter 26 is poignant and beautifully written.

“She did not exactly wish it had been possible to exchange her father for Trollope, but she felt if he had been more like him he might have had more mercy, more understanding” (188).

Oh boy, Mary is the same age as me at this point in the novel, 36! I always love when that happens. I first read Gaudy Night when I was the same age as Harriet Vane, 29.