Response to
this post from 26th May
Oh Geoffrey. You have this knack of wanting to turn friends or would-be friends into enemies. If this keeps up he may yet give Ivan the Terrible a run for his money. It must sting to be outwitted by Martinus, yet again. When will time rid Geoffrey of this turbulent priest?
It is good to see both Beatriz and Ancel again. Ancel ... he appears to have committed that greatest of crimes: doing what an authority tells him to do. It is terrible when people do that. Authority figure just speaking, passing time, and then someone dang it goes an actually listens. Not just listens but acts on it. The nerve! Now I could make this seem like a mess of Geoffrey's own making, but I won't because it is not really true. But his response to the news very much is. A man of passion - there is very little half-way with Geoffrey. Especially so energised regarding England right now it should not be a surprise. But it betrays him, and it betrays him here. I note with a measure of some gratification that he did actually listen to Adhemer, but even though he is following that advise his event view on Adhmere is simple: coward.
I also had to chuckle about Geoffrey finding his inquisition of Ancel to be tiresome - though I do understand. It is excessively tiresome when one keeps finding evidence of one's over-reaction and of one being wrong. Don't I know it all too well?
I wonder how Beatriz's meeting with her mother went?
And, inevitably, I almost wonder if - I was tempted to say when, but I am doing my best to give Geoffrey benefit of the doubt - if he lays with Duchess Marguerite.
But to England we go. His father would say Alea Iacta Est. Our Geoffrey, being somewhat harried by all the talk and chatter, probably just wants to hit someone. In that ... more like ihs grandfather. And ... to be fair ... his grandfather is probably the better person to channel when it comes to hammering the English.