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Chapter 13
A Visit to Guestwick

Crosbie pleasant as sun in May
Trollope says that Crosbie "would have made himself at once as pleasant as the sun in May" if Lily Dale would have acknowledged that he was correct in his estimation of her relationship with John Eames.  This is another allusion to the god of light, Apollo.  See commentary for Chapter 2.  [KD]

Chapter 14
John Eames Takes a Walk

Pastoral imagery and Johnny Eames
"He wandered about through the old Manor woods…" Throughout the novel, Trollope places Johnny in pastoral settings in the countryside of Guestwick and Allington.  It is possible that the poetic and love-ridden John is much like the poets in Theocritus' Idylls or Vergil's Eclogues.  These poems are often in pastoral settings and the speakers often sing of unrequited love.  Therefore Trollope may have implicitly represented John as a pastoral poet.  [KD]

Tablets of his mind
When John writes a letter "on the tablets of his mind" to Amelia Roper, he falls asleep under the tree.  For the classical association of this phrase, see commentary for Chapter 2.  [KD]

Chapter 15
The Last Day

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