Harry's penultimate scene is an almost hilarious series of people arriving to tell him about all the things that have gone wrong/all the allies that are actually not going to be showing up. And, of course, he is deliberately misinformed about whether or not the king would be open to reconciling, but it's not totally clear whether or not he would have cared to have that option anyway.
One of the crucial points of Arabella and Mr. Segundus's canon (IMO anyway) is that the bumbling around of the title characters causes a ripple effect of disaster for other people in and around their lives (much more for Arabella than Segundus, and much more for some other characters than for her).
Viola, of course, has being shipwrecked, having to disguise herself as a boy, falling in love with the man she's serving, having to go woo a woman in his behalf, having that woman fall in love with her, getting challenged to a duel, being mistaken for her apparently-not-dead brother, being threatened with death (??) by various nobles who think that she married the woman her brother in fact married...
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One of the crucial points of Arabella and Mr. Segundus's canon (IMO anyway) is that the bumbling around of the title characters causes a ripple effect of disaster for other people in and around their lives (much more for Arabella than Segundus, and much more for some other characters than for her).
Viola, of course, has being shipwrecked, having to disguise herself as a boy, falling in love with the man she's serving, having to go woo a woman in his behalf, having that woman fall in love with her, getting challenged to a duel, being mistaken for her apparently-not-dead brother, being threatened with death (??) by various nobles who think that she married the woman her brother in fact married...