Nalle thinks that no one was ever really important to BR. One thing BR has made clear to her is that "... brilliant people don't know how to live their lives. Of course I don't mean that in every sense, but many of the things that meant most to him became unhinged, because he did not devote enough real attention to them. ... Because you and Ottoline did not want to marry him, he made these awful matches, and begot children with impossible specimens...." (S. Turcon note)