![]() ![]() Despite appearances, this conversion doesn’t come out of the clear blue sky. We know that Charles was raised in religion ("I was taken to church weekly as a child" he earlier confessed), so his newfound Catholicism is actually a return to God. This is the twitch upon the thread we’ve been waiting for. Charles enters the chapel and "sa a prayer, an ancient, newly learned form of words." The "newly learned" bit is our second clue and confirms that Charles has in fact recently converted. (We know, it’s subtle, but it’s there.) The second comes in the epilogue, and is part of this big ending we’re trying to talk about here. ![]() More in your line than mine." "R.C." means "Roman Catholic," and Hooper’s comment that it’s "more in line than " is the clue we’re talking about. I looked in and there was a kind of service going on – just a padre and one old man. The first hint actually comes in the prologue, when an army man named Hooper tells Charles of their new lodgings at Brideshead: "There's a sort of R.C. ![]() Did you notice? If not, don’t worry, because we only get two small clues that Charles has converted by the time he’s in the army in the 1940s. ![]()
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