In the final scene where Lucy and George are on their honeymoon, Lucy reads a letter from Freddie and says something like, "Silly Freddie! Everyone knew we were traveling in the spring." I've never been able to figure out what she meant.
shareI'd like to know this, too. Maybe someone who read the book would know?
Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.--Stephen King
In the book the family are very angry at the muddle Lucy has made and it says that she and George are alienated from Windy Corner (her home) perhaps for ever. It would seem that they tried to get Lucy's mothers consent and then it says "that if mother wouldn't give her consent we would have taken the thing into our own hands. And then he calls it an elopement. Ridiculous boy." It looks like Freddy has tried to take on a father type role and send Lucy a telling off letter about their sudden and supposedly surprise disappearance, when she had perhaps always made it clear that she would marry George despite any attempts to stop it. There was talk earlier of her coming into her money so maybe she was waiting for that, and perhaps turning 21 at the same time, so not needing consent. The timeline of the book makes it clear that they end up back in the same room at the pensione, at the the same time, exactly a year later.
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