Rosina
Demelza should have encouraged her other brother, Sam, to court Rosina. Drake still looks like a lovesick teenager and could use a few years to grow up before marrying. Sam called Rosina good and God fearing so she’s a good fit for him.
shareI had the same thoughts.
shareWell, now that the end has come, in the books, Rosina does marry Sam, and at the end of the series,they do marry.
shareThat was a happy ending. But poor Rosina had to go through another jilting first! Why did Sam get seduced by that treasonous mine hussy? Rosina is prettier and kinder than her (forgot name) and Morwenna but she got passed over by both of them in the eyes of the Carne bros. 😡
shareI suppose that Emma Tregirls, daughter of Tholly, was a bit of an outsider and exotic to Sam. She also has a mind of her own. Sam is attracted to Emma and though he couches that attraction in conventional terms, it is physical. He hopes to convert her to Methodism and marry her to legitimize his strong physical desire.
If I remember, in the novels Emma was a buxom brunette. She also had a reputation mostly undeserved as a loose woman. While she admitted to permitting liberties: necking and petting, she told Sam that "No man has had me". She is principled in her own way, and though she comes to love Sam deeply, she is clear-eyed and realistic. She 'could never conform to Sam's devout Methodism. no matter how much she loves him.
Emma leaves the village and takes a job elsewhere as a housemaid, eventually sadly asking a friend to write a letter to Sam (Emma is illiterate) informing him that she will marry a footman who is employed where she is who loves her and with whom she sees a chance of a solid marriage of equals.
Rosina Hoblyn is a sweet biddable girl whose advantages as a wife, Sam comes to realize, and he eventually marries her.