Which is why it takes Tuppence being two seconds away from death to snap him out of his confusion and reawaken the reality that he loves her, deeply, and the last thing he ever wants is to lose her. He's trying, in his own bumbling way, to help her, but it isn't working. He doesn't realize that his words of reproach cause deep, harmful wounds in Tuppence's psyche.
#By the pricking of my thumbs how to
No, Tommy hasn't stopped loving his wife, but he doesn't know how to handle her bouts of alcoholism or her insecurity. Tommy raising his eyebrows as Miss Marple states that a local couple has a passionless marriage. She's one of those wives who still loves their husbands, but is absolutely certain that his affection for her has faded as she's aged. She believes that Tommy doesn't care, and she's bored from doing nothing with her life. Which is why Tuppence drinks too much, and why she puts herself in harm's way during this case with Miss Marple. In her mind, that translates to her being of the exact same importance to him as a relation he only sees once every few years. When he's away, he sends her the same postcards that he sends to his aging Aunt Ada. Like many husbands, Tommy is actually clueless about his wife's misery. On a side note, though, the power he wields in this episode is extremely attractive! His wife isn't his subordinate, and he needs to remember that. I'm inclined towards the latter decision, but because of Tommy's government job, I think sometimes he forgets that not everyone will say "How high?" when he demands that they jump. he doesn't want her to worry about stressful decisions.
Or two: he's trying to protect her because he knows she struggles with a drinking habit and is now prone to more nerves than in the early years of their marriage, i.e. One: he truly does think his wife isn't as smart as he is, therefore, he resents her interfering. That reaction could be for one of two different reasons. If she tries to interfere or assist him, he becomes snappish and irritated. If a problem needs solving, he solves it, and always without her help. Tommy finding out that the old biddy, Miss Marple, has one of the keenest minds in England! The days stretch longer for Tuppence without her husband, and she starts remembering the times when she and Tommy spent time together, when they actually did a little detective work together in their younger days, when he considered her an equal partner in their marriage. Now, that was all right, while they had children to occupy her, but their children are grown and gone now, leading lives of their own. In fact, it sounds like he's gone for months at a time every now and again, off on some diplomatic errand or other. He has a job with the British government (my fangirling heart burst knowing that he works at MI6!) and he's away from home most of the time.
You have adventures together, spend gads of time in each other's company, bear children together, and somehow settle into that daily grind of life where nothing new ever happens. Most people marry relatively young, as did Tommy and Tuppence. Now that you've had my prologue (although I confess that Anthony doesn't have nearly enough scenes for a die-hard fangirl like me!), we can move on to the meat of Tommy and Tuppence's relationship. Now I do, and I wish to high heaven that some genius had leapt to his/her feet and declared the necessity of a Tommy and Tuppence miniseries! Just a single season, possibly only 4 episodes, but each one casting this brilliant duo of Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi. It didn't snag my interest for very long, possibly because I didn't have a visual to go with the story. I vaguely remember reading this Agatha Christie novel once, quite a few years back, and being surprised that she'd written something without either Poirot or Miss Marple.
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