Suitors
Bundle was attractive to men. Towards the end of The Seven Dials Mystery, she received two proposals of marriage, the first from the Hon George Lomax, a pompous Cabinet Minister, only five years younger than her father, who was known behind his back as "Codders" and was described incongruously as "His Majesty's permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs". Lomax's unctuous self-assessment of his suitability as a husband, and of the role he saw for Bundle, had much in common with Mr Collins' unsuccessful wooing of Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813).
Lomax was duly rejected and Bundle opted instead for Bill Eversleigh (born c. 1900), one of Lomax's junior officials, described four years earlier as "very likeable" with a "pleasantly ugly face". Eversleigh plainly loved Bundle for herself, blurting out "darling, darling Bundle" several times when he thought she was dead ("I've killed her" ... "No, you haven't, you silly idiot"), and he was very acceptable to Lord Caterham because he was a scratch golfer.
In The Seven Dials Mystery Bundle told Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard, who appeared in both of the Chimneys novels, that he was a "wonderful man" and that she was sorry he was already married.
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