I've been thinking about this for the past day or so far, far more intently than I've been thinking about the paper that I'm suppoedly writing, and man. Maybe it's my tin-hat love of FC, but I don't know if I can convince myelf that HH would've left Marie at the end of LH if she'd been pregnant. The end of LH kind of makes me think that even if HH didn't think she was pregnant, if Marie hadn't died, there was a decent chance that HH would've stayed in France permanently.

And. Man. It really depends on how estranged he was from Barbara at the end of that book, doesn't it? And how much he felt his duty to as an officer.

There are so many ways to play this. Jesus.