I've returned to A Glastonbury Romance after taking a break to read a bunch of non-fiction I got for my birthday recently. It's just struck me that the rich industrialist, Philip Crow, who wants to turn Wookey Hole into a tin mine, is actually Hades, in his guise as Plouton, the god not only of the underworld but also of wealth, and specifically underground mineral wealth. Because of course the married woman he's having an affair with, whom he periodically 'abducts' from her husband, is called Persephone.