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Can You Forgive Her? · Chapter
Endnotes explained
The author acknowledges borrowing a character from a friend and notes that the friend would have forgiven the theft; the name is kept unchanged.
What happens
The author acknowledges borrowing a character from a friend and notes that the friend would have forgiven the theft; the name is kept unchanged.
Key passages
“Ah, my friend, from whom I have borrowed this scion of the nobility! Had he been left with us he would have forgiven me my little theft, and now that he has gone I will not change the name.”
The author remarks that the friend who originally created this noble character would have pardoned the borrowing, and since the friend has passed away, the name remains unchanged.
The author explains the origin and permanence of a borrowed character name.