Well, Alfie has an interest in or is a silent partner in many swanky places. And he'd love to mock the party line Blacks. He's so glad he'd out of that. He would definitely encourage that crush. Don't hold back, man!
Oh yes, very nice. Constrained and crushed into a little box, trained to think in only one way with no questioning allowed. Boring!
Yeah, that could work. I mean, if their parents were scheming about an engagement, Alfie would have gone to her at school and told her not to worry, that it would never go ahead because a) he was gay and b) he intended to get himself thrown out of the family, possibly spectacularly, possibly not, he wasn't sure at the time. She should just go along with it and she'd come out the other end looking golden. :D