Here are some characters the show leaves out.Jeremy Poldark, Ross and Demelza’s son, meets Stephen Carrington, the stranger by the sea, when he finds him in the sea thinking he is dead. He also brings primroses for Morwenna. I agree that Ruth and John's marriage seemed to work pretty well for the two of them. Her love was purely maternal and quite selfish.Paul Kellow did marry 'up' because his was not a genteel family - they had pretensions and Paul liked to romance to strangers about their position and connections, but really they were parvenues.I cannot agree that George and Elizabeth were happy. And speaking of how much Clowance resembled her father - that's also one of the reasons why I can't agree with your view about Ben. Even George admits that Whitworth is a reptile and a prig, (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but who cares about Morwenna’s prospective decades of misery, if it gets him onto the Godolphin’s Christmas card list.Week by week we see Elizabeth descending into darkness. Clowance was effectively friend-zoning all of her suitors (except Stephen) throughout the second part of the saga, and I felt that love was most likely to grow from that childhood friendship of hers with Ben - and really wanted Ben to be rewarded for his patient and quiet devotion.About WG casting women as siren-like creatures, I think you're spot on! Valentine asks Ross if he could be his father. When Morwenna runs back into the church to retrieve her scarf, Drake follows her and they finally kiss. And I'm sure she was ready to give again in her next marriage.What I meant by a "non-boring" husband for Clowance was in fact the exact opposite of someone to "entertain" her - I think she needed someone with a good grace to accept all she had to offer, so that she could give freely and see the difference it makes. And of course Unwin tells what she wants to hear, that all is well, that Dwight is soon to be released, and in the meantime he receives best possible treatment.Ross, who was a prisoner of war himself during the Revolutionary War, knows better. He then informs Ross that he is trespassing on Warleggan land and he can have him arrested, so step off. She was born into a family where marriage seemed easy. Bella’s attraction shifts to Maurice. To finance it, Caroline and Demelza go door to door collecting for Jerry’s Kids. He makes Clowance laugh again, something she'd almost forgotten how to do. He shares this with Demelza, but not Caroline. But who knows if she got up to her old tricks again, or ran off with some dandy?Paul Kellow married money (not sure it was considered a step up) but the marriage certainly was not happy--poor Mary!Are you thinking that such a marriage would have enhanced the saga?Can anyone think of an example across the Poldark books where someone (willingly) marries up in terms of social status, but is unhappy in marriage? Aunt Agatha reads the two, and sends him back to Nampara with a message: tell Ross she’s feeling neglected.Just as he’s leaving, a message arrives from Truro Headquarters; Geoffrey Charles and Morwenna are to go there for Christmas.