[ And no, no one dared to call his character Bill, but he hadn't quite thought that through when he'd written it, had he? ]
No, they weren't lovers, just childhood friends. And he never told William, he just up and left one day, after they'd had a fight. And William had gone to apologize to him, and he hadn't been there, and a servant had told him that he was sl-- that he'd gone away.
[ He tries to salvage that by quickly moving on: ]
He does have a very dark and mysterious past, and William tries to figure it out for the majority of the novel, since the stranger - Phineas - keeps it from him.
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Date: 2020-04-04 05:19 pm (UTC)[ And no, no one dared to call his character Bill, but he hadn't quite thought that through when he'd written it, had he? ]
No, they weren't lovers, just childhood friends. And he never told William, he just up and left one day, after they'd had a fight. And William had gone to apologize to him, and he hadn't been there, and a servant had told him that he was sl-- that he'd gone away.
[ He tries to salvage that by quickly moving on: ]
He does have a very dark and mysterious past, and William tries to figure it out for the majority of the novel, since the stranger - Phineas - keeps it from him.