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Early in James’s first novel Watch and Ward the protagonist Roger Lawrence falls asleep while his young ward Nora, whom he is educating to become his wife, reads to him from The Heir of Redclyffe. When he awakens, he excuses himself by declaring: ‘all novels seem to me stupid. They are nothing to what I can fancy: I have in my heart a prettier romance than any of them.’ When Nora begs to hear it, he replies, ‘My denouement is not yet written … Wait till the story is finished; then you shall hear the whole’.1 |
