At one point Daniel the faerie king says that twenty years of service is short enough, "like Doyle's wife" and the only Doyle I can think of is Arthur Conan Doyle, who had a weird little love triangle with his ailing and dying first wife and his second wife, who actually worked as a medium - they got involved in spiritualistic stuff- at one point Doyle even championed some rumors of what was ultimately a fairy hoax. However, I can't see any descriptions that list one of his wives as short. What does Daniel mean here? Or is it a different Doyle, with a short tempered wife?