I think that in Cold Comfort Farm, by another writer, the heroine talks to her beau about decades of friendship, when foreshadowing what their marriage will be like.
She loves the unromantic understatement, and I suppose it fits with the rationalist tradition she started off following. I suppose it is the lower orders who got all soppy over each other, and met each other to kiss in moonlit lanes, like the post office assistant and her suitor in 'Mrs McGinty's Dead', or the maid, Gladys, in Pocket Full of Rye. She equates it with being admirable, and, generally, at the time, to be such was probably equated with good breeding. As Jane Austen did too - all the sense rather than the sensibility.
She probably was a bit of a snob, and liked her romances dignified. I think the other romance in The Crooked House, is probably how upper middle class people either were, or liked to think they were, and Agatha Christie has this great yen for a way of behaving which is unsentimental. His, what we felt, were callous comments at the end about the maid and Mrs Symington's deaths, and it not being such a waste of lives, was an attitude, again, brought on by seeing so much death, perhaps. I think Jerry wants to seize the moment, and to give Megan security because of the uncertainty abounding.
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