Sir Reginald
EarnestCorrectOverlookedPersistent
Sir Reginald Thornbury is the reader's other suitor and possibly the most average man in London. He is the kind of man mothers recommend: stable income, good family, excellent teeth, no discernible personality. He cannot see the tentacles. But he can see that objects move around Voidsworth, that temperatures drop, that spatial inconsistencies occur. He is the only person besides the reader who senses something is wrong, and he has been trying to expose Voidsworth with the dogged persistence of a man who is fundamentally correct and completely ignored because nobody finds him interesting enough to listen to. The tragedy of Sir Reginald is that he is right about everything and it does not matter because being right is not the same as being compelling.
