It pains me to write this one, but here
goes: how would history have been altered if Biggles had never found out that
Marie was a German spy?
Well, to begin with, Algy and the rest of
266 would be buried under the weight of several bombs, so it would be unlikely
that any of them would have been best man at Biggles’ wedding.
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Would Biggles and Marie have eloped?
Possibly. I don’t see Biggles leaving the RFC for her (although with Algy and
the rest of his friends gone he might feel so heartbroken that it’s possible.
Evil woman!! Bet that was her plan all along!!)
Let’s go a little deeper. What if Biggles
had never offered to deliver the fatal letter to Marie’s “father”? Would she
have lost interest in him and found some excuse to break it off? Or was she as infatuated
with him as he was with her? I personally find it unlikely that a woman in love
would have asked her beloved to deliver a death-trap letter, but then again,
people have strange ways of showing their affection. She did write that letter asking
him to meet her, however, so maybe she did kind of like him (or liked having
someone to wrap around her little finger).
If Biggles had not delivered the letter and
266 had remained intact, I feel that Biggles would have remained completely and
utterly in love with Marie. (Because she was basically the first girl he’d ever
really seen in his entire life, and
also because, as we all know, Biggles can be an idiot where women are
concerned.) Would he have secretly married her? I’m not sure about this one,
because on the one hand I feel like Biggles would want to seize the moment, but
on the other hand he knew the risks of being a war pilot and would feel
uncomfortable with marrying a woman who might at any second become a widow.
And what on earth was Algy doing when
Biggles was hanging around moonlit courtyards and stone benches?!! Why didn’t
he recognize Marie for the evil monster she was and just hit her with something
extremely lethal and hard?