| Now we see the source of Rosemary's estrangement from her father. Old Ferdinand feels keenly the bite of having to take the Thain's charity, and in some way this is paying him back by giving him the only thing Ferdinand still has that Ferumbras could want - Rosemary. So Ferumbras is eager to get a heir? It is implied that his mother thinks better of him, for the plans that are being made. Perhaps Lalia wishes to mold the future Mistress to her satisfaction while she still can. I find it a bit curious that Ferumbras is so willing to oblige her. That relationship is rather strange - he either has no ambition at all for himself, and is content to remain under her thumb as a spoiled dandy, or he has to have a lot of really repressed anger to deal with at some time in the future. Marrying or not marrying seems like the last bit of control he has, the last card he could play against his mother. I wonder why he's so eager to spend it? |
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