Does anybody have any questions, comments, etc? *AMA*

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

While I feel that a lot of loose ends got tied up in the final few episodes, I daresay readers may still have a few questions about how certain things turned out? Or indeed about things that happened in existing text.

With a proviso that in some cases there may be [spoilers] involved with respect to snippets in process or projected.

Comments

[em_h]

Honestly, I am most curious about what adult Flora and Hannah are up to, but that takes us into a whole other generation and any number of possible trajectories ...

[aella_irene]

I sincerely hope that the lady who is no longer Mrs D- K- has a happy marriage out in Nova Scotia, and no one ever finds out about

Who does Sebastian K wed? Does he wed? Do his father and Mrs P find true comfort together in a surprisingly respectable fashion?

[swingandswirl]

Seconding these questions! and adding a third about Bess and Tom O - was their romance just a youthful fling, or something more?

(And I thought I saw some hints of Sebastian/Meg but that might just be wishful thinking.)

[rymenhild]

This. And do Em and Lalage maintain a partnership?

[em_h]

Oh, and how Josh ends up as an adult. I have always wondered about his future. (And Bess and Meg, as above).

Apparently, what I actually want is The Comfortable Courtesan: The Next Generation, which is really an excessive request ...

[kore]

What happens to all the little F's? Are C and J and E ever able to happily triangulate in a little country house somewhere away from prying eyes? Does Flora ever know who her other mother was?

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

This should be addressed in a forthcoming snippet.

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

They do: although Em continues to have occasional wild enthusiasms towards other women, she always returns to Lalage. The relationship is entirely accepted by her family and their immediate circle.

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

Captain and Mrs C- have a happy marriage in Nova Scotia, raising horses. No children, however.

[clanwilliam]

I saw Sebastian/Meg too and Viola would be delighted. And so would Biffle.

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

Sebastian indeed marries Meg. She becomes a noted amateur musician and patron of music.

Bess marries Tom O-. Besides taking an active part in the running of the ironworks, and his estate, she becomes an entrepreneur setting up and managing several provincial theatres.

[kore]

Besides taking an active part in the running of the ironworks, and his estate, she becomes an entrepreneur setting up and managing several provincial theatres.

YESSS

[kore]

OMG. //melts

[nineveh_uk]

How did Sandy and Lord G- R- meet in the first place? And what is Sandy's family background?

Also, does Meg enjoy school when she goes?

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

Josh, after studying veterinary science, becomes a zoologist/explorer, achieving the FZS and FRS at a fairly young age, and also a campaigner for the more humanitarian treatment of animals.

Quintus becomes a doctor, a noted physician and sanitarian campaigner, also supporter of the medical education of women. He married Sukey Wallace.

[em_h]

Huh, I'd had Quintus pegged as a progressive clergyman, but doctor makes some sense too.

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

See above for what happens to the little F-s. Harry becomes a noted engineer renowned for his work in steam locomotion, also (along with Bess) runs the ironworks after his parents' death. He marries Lady Louisa M-.
Other questions may be addressed in snippets.

[aella_irene]

O! Little Lou.

[aella_irene]

Also, what was the situation that made it prudent that C both cease writing her memoirs, and hide them?

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

Meg enjoys school very much.

Sandy comes from a respectable small-shopkeeper background. His family assumed that he would go into the church. He met Milord in the context of various radical societies in London (he had perhaps particular reason for thinking that the finest sight a Scotsman ever sees was the high road to London).

[kore]

Josh the explorer! oh that's so wonderful.

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

In the wake of the Mr R- O- business, and the continuing expressions of interest from the Earl of I-, she decided it was all too much of a risk to her friends and herself.

[the_comfortable_courtesan]

No: he moved on quite rapidly from holding funerals for dead birds, dormice, etc, to dissecting them.

[el_staplador]

What happened to Lady J- and Miss A- when the latter retired from the stage? And the Admiral?

[loligo]

No particular questions for you -- just saying thank you for the answers!