last question - and a bit of cheating

[learnsslowly]

It was going to be what Ann and her father have a blazing row about, but when I started to write about it I discovered it was part of a bigger incident. So the question is, what are John Walker and Peter Marlow going to have a blazing row about?

John allows Peter Marlow to sail Swallow. Peter take a stupid risk to show he's not afraid. Peter

Comments

[heliopausa]

But how did Ann and her father turn into John and Peter?
And Ann in a blazing row is intriguing - I would think she is much more the sort to simply decide when someone's simply not worth bothering with, ever again - and that's it, end of story.
Editing to add: No, hang on... I've just seen that you define a blazing row as one in which one party "very quietly tears a strip" off the other. :) So that explains it - my definition of blazing row involves something much more high-pitched and LOUD! :) The quiet tearing a strip - oh, yes, I could see Ann doing that!

[learnsslowly]

I just substituted two different characters at random - and then realised that John, born in 1916 was unlikely to let himself lose his dignity by getting into a shouting match with Peter, born in 1934 - who does give it (ie. the shouting) a go. Blazing rows are somewhat more likely to be louder in my usual view.
Ann is probably going to have to make that hard decision about her father - but he is her father so she will probably at least try to gain his acceptance of her Major Decision.

I'm quite sure that John and Nancy are capable of loud blazing rows of the the door slamming nature, but probably not about anything really important, fairly rarely and, after one party flings out of the house to "go for a walk", it involves a lot of making up not very much later. I imagine it's a bit more controlled than it looks, too, and neither of them says anything really hurtful.