Talk:Twilight at Ingleside/@comment-4934571-20160707211803/@comment-4934571-20160708105804

I reread the poem, but I'm not very good at deciphering poetry. I never liked it back at school when we had to find the true meaning of poems and everyone saw something different. You could be right about the poem being about Margaret, but I think Montgomery would rather mention Captain Jim (the better known character) than Mary Royce/lost Margaret in the commentary.

There's still a possibility that Mary Royce is a cultural reference. When I first read Anne of the Island, I thought that Uriah Heep was an in-universe character as I was not familiar with the original novel by Dickens. Maybe Mary is someone like Uriah.