Regina's affair with her professor's wife is not, however, the only romance here; it inaugurates a fugal series of couplings, with characters swapping partners according to the harmonic logic of desire and rejection.
And Teresa Goding as a one-night stand (who almost destroys the only romance in the story), makes sexual foreplay so funny that you conclude that it would be greedy for any man to want anything more.
Writers thought writing about history was something only romance novelists did, and studiously avoided anything that looked like genre fiction; the ghosts of Georgette Heyer, Catherine Cookson and Jean Plaidy loomed large.
In fact, his only romance (unconsummated) in the series is with a female sandbagger, Laura Dickens (played by Diane Keen), who is, if anything, wound tighter than he is.
Anyway, there we are, with Don Keefer — one of the few truly appealing characters on the show and half of the show's only romance worth rooting for, with Munn's Sloan Sabbith — in a Princeton dorm room, interviewing a girl, Mary, who said she'd been raped.
Anyway, there we are, with Don Keefer one of the few truly appealing characters on the show and half of the show's only romance worth rooting for, with Munn's Sloan Sabbith in a Princeton dorm room, interviewing a girl, Mary, who said she'd been raped.
