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Teddy revealed through flashbacks
   Pat Ingoldsby as moody friend
   War time -- Teddy's father insists he return to Asia rather than fight
    Teddy meets up with Babs (cousin) who tries to  seduce him--he flees
   
Teddy's wife dies
  He's surprised she is mourned by others
  No children
  No sensuality\
  Cold marriage

After her death, Teddy goes on various pilgrimages. He meets up with an old lawyer, has dinner with him, then they part . . . barely able to discuss anything of significance.  He goes to see Babs who is a music teacher.  She seems eccentric to him; he flees from her again.  Next he's off to cousin Claire who is more hospitable.  She has a son Oliver who has a significant other.  Teddy gives them all of Betty's jewelry--they think they are getting recipes and are flabbergasted, but end up keeping the jewels.

Journey to try to make sense of his life . . . not too successful so far.
He seems, in many ways, unsympathetic in his coldness, but he does no harm (purposefully, at least), so he's actually a sympathetic unsympathetic man.  And that childhood!  We can forgive him his lack of love because he surely saw or felt little love.

Eccentric characters:  golfing aunts who (sort of) look after him and then immediately marry once he is trundled off to Singapore.

Father's affection:  pays to have others look after Teddy.  Seems to care that Teddy might die in war.

Teddy wants to fight--right thing to do, disgrace to flee to Asia.However, until he turns 18 he cannot disobey his father's will, so return to Asia he must.

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