i felt like clive didnt mate with his wife til the end....

excuse if the topics been addressed previously...

there's a scene in the movie where clive and his wife go to bed, after the ceiling leak scene i believe, and she sees him naked from behind and turns her head, shy. then he climbs in to bed, but they arent intimate (not that they have to be every night or anything) and he gives her a chaste kiss and they both fall asleep unfulfilled, maybe. i got the impression (from the film. i never read the book) that clive married to have a 'beard,' and when he finally closes the shutters at the end of the film to 'shut maurice and the past out his life for good,' he was letting his wife know it was time to be intimate and have a 'real marriage'--something theyd yet to do since marrying, since they maybe always slept with the windows, curtains, etc open. i know he was assumed a virgin, since he and maurice never had sex.

what about all the deleted characters from the deleted scenes? Dickie? whos he? well i know WHO he is, but his scenes couldve stayed, like ivory wanted. the lady maurice smokes a fag with, darby or doris... and makes smoke rings and aborted kiss? Risley and suicide? i should get the book, eh?