But I looked up the meaning of the ivy leaves that Ewen hears as he’s drowsily thinking about Keith. In the language of flowers, ivy means marriage or fidelity (and according to this website, immortality, as it’s evergreen. Oh, I like that a lot. It is things like these that do make me wonder about how much of these meanings Broster intentioned — I know it's a bit of a useless question, but there are so many of these double meanings with their associated implications... one does wonder. The meanings of plants would seem to be significant, at any rate; Va gur crahygvzngr puncgre fur qenjf bhe nggragvba oevrsyl gb n unmry gerr — nppbeqvat gb n 19gu praghel obbx V unir ba Tnryvp anzrf sbe cynagf, unmry gerrf ner erpbeqrq guhf: 'Va Prygvp fhcrefgvgvba gur unmry jnf pbafvqrerq hayhpxl, naq nffbpvngrq jvgu ybff be qnzntr.' N engure cbvtanag zrnavat.

And ugh, thank you for putting in my head the thought of David Cameron as a descendant. I would like to scrub that particular notion from my brain now. (That being said, it has given me an idea for a line in a story I'm toying with...)