John Rea, a knight in white armours
brings up the theme of contagious smiles thru Browning lines. I
couldn't get the link with Ada, though I was reminded of VN's "Spring in
Fialta" and generous Nina.
JR wrote: " Those who notice aspects of a "conspiracy theory"amongst certain
devotees of the late princess, and recall the Browninglike lines in Ada,
may also note Browning's: She had a heart too soon made glad....and liked whate'er she
looked on...."
The shadowy Blanche moving with candles,
dusting the globe and finding lost slippers in
Ardis suggests another kind of conspiracy. Wouldn't her appareances
and interferences serve to indicate specific hidden ancestral
lines on who might be the true princess of a
tale?