# cabin on the coast and Doyle's wife comment *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Aug 2014* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Marc Aramini *11 Aug 2014, 23:15* 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? ---