Brideshead Revisited IV

Several years pass and Charles loses touch with the Flytes. Julia is married to Rex Mottram who is a successful Tory politican. Lady Marchmain dies, and the Flyte house in London is turned into apartments. Charles is successful in his painting but he is dissatisfied with his life. He has married Celia Mulcaster, the sister of one of Sebastian's college friends but the marriage is not very successful. Charles finds out she has been having an affair and decides to go abroad to paint in the South American jungles. He spends a long time there and then comes back home, sailing on a luxury liner. He finds Julia is also a passanger on the voyage. Celia is seasick as are many of the passangers, so Charles and Julia can spend time together and talk. She tells him she is very unhappy with Rex - they had a baby but it died. She then had an affair with a man and went to America to see him but the affair died out and now she is coming home. Charles tells her about his marriage and how he still misses Sebastian and the 2 of them become lovers. She tells him Sebastian is still living abroad and Cordelia has gone to Spain to nurse. She tried being a nun but it didn't work out. Brideshead is managing the family estate and seems to be happy in his odd dull way. When they get back to London they continue their affair and visit Brideshead castle at times. After a while Julia starts to hint that they are a happy couple and perhaps they should get married. In Catholic terms, marrying a divorced man like Charles is wrong, but she feels she should try and put her life in order, before war might break out. Charles' makes plans to get a divorce from Celia, and is generous to her because he wants the marriage ended. Then Bridey (Lord Brideshead) tells them that he wants to get married. He has never shown any interest in women and now they are very surprised. He shocks them by telling Julia that he tolerates her affair with Charles and her marriage to the divorced Rex, but that his ladylove Mrs Musprat, is a devout Catholic and a middle class woman and she would not be willing to visit a fallen woman like Julia.