“[In A] Hugh Lygon’s name appears last in Evelyn’s list of fellow Hypocrites: ‘Hugh Lygon, Elmley’s younger brother, always just missing the happiness he sought, without ambition, unhappy in love, a man of greatest sweetness; and many others…’ The wistfulness and the drift into ellipses suggests that something is being left unsaid. Why was it, when Evelyn could be comparatively open about Hugh Pares and Alistair Graham? […]”
- Paula Byrne’s Mad World