Well, there's a reason why it's considered a classic.:) Mind you, Waugh has been breakig Slash fans' hearts since generations by letting the m/m couple break up mid book, never to reunite again as a couple (though there's one more time Charles sees Sebastian, gone to seed and drunkenness in Morocco), with one half of said couple first marrying, then falling for his previous boyfriend's alsao married sister. The prose is gorgeous, Waugh at his best, but just about 99% of the readers disagreed with him with who the main pairing of his novel is.