Howards End
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This isnt Matthew Macfadyens first time delightfully bumbling through a thoroughly awkward marriage proposal for a British period piece.
As Henry Wilcox, Macfadyen delivers again.
And Im much older.
To continue the awkwardness, Henry then proposes they head upstairs and keep up the tour.
Their fitness as as couple is the central question that swirls around the episode.
I tell you not to.
Its a conversation that overflows with questions women are still asking themselves more than 100 years later.
Is it possible to enter marriage entirely wise to your spouses faults?
Instead, after their marriage theyll move to the estate in Shropshire.
Jacky believes the Schlegels owe Leonard some assistance.
Leonard would simply like to melt into the floorboards.
And Helen is enraged.
Yes, Henry offered some wisdom, but he did not force the advice on Leonard.
And Helen acted out of only good instincts and on what she thought was good information.
Helens meddling has only hurt Leonards economic standing, but was she simply to avoid action altogether?
And so, we learn the devoted, robotic Henry Wilcox once committed a sin of the flesh.
At the hotel, Leonard and Helen have gathered around the table to talk through the days mishaps.
She follows her sisters earlier edict (which is alsoHowards Ends most enduring line) to only connect.
