Henry is a mixed-up old cove before love looks like being the making of him. You can just see him, unmarried, set in his ways. He has his women, the borrowed wives of sometime friends, (he would say they borrow him, to straighten him out), he has weird fancies about a great-aunt Marghanita but, on the Larkin theme of ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad,’ most of his hang-ups can be laid at his parents’ door.

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