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The refrain from a popular song of the period recurs frequently in the text: There were angels dining at the Ritz, And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square .... and the slick modish words have a relevance to the serious business of the novel, for here, as often elsewhere, Muriel Spark is urging that there are angels and devils in everyday life. 44 The notion has received comic treatment in The Ballad of Peckham Rye, but here it is entirely serious. Even in terms of realistic psychological motivation, however, the climactic scene is convincing.
And the slick modish words have a relevance to the serious business of the novel, for here, as often elsewhere, Muriel Spark is urging that there are angels and devils in everyday life. 44 The notion has received comic treatment in The Ballad of Peckham Rye, but here it is entirely serious. Even in terms of realistic psychological motivation, however, the climactic scene is convincing. Nicholas has been presented as an idealist: 'his austere bed-sitting room' has a monkish quality, and he sleeps with Selina 'with the aim of converting her soul' as well as willing 'the awakening of her social conscience': With the reckless ambition of a visionary, he pushed his passion for Selina into a desire that she, too, should accept and exploit the outlines of poverty in her life.
Later, at Patrick's trial, Angels Dining at the Ritz: The Early Novels 35 Ronald is called as an expert witness and suffers an epileptic seizure under the stress of giving evidence: Ronald swayed. He fumbled in his pockets for his pills. They were in his other suit, at home. He gave up. He stumbled down the steps and fell two steps before he got to the bottom. There he foamed at the mouth. His eyes turned upwards, and the drum-like kicking of his heels began on the polished wooden floor. ' said the judge.