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Just reading For Your Eyes Only (the individual short story) and when M enquires about 007's "coefficient of toughness" Bond's thinking is that he's "never suffered the tragedy of a personal loss". Surely, given that we later learn in OHMSS that Bond visits Vesper's grave every year plus knowing the effect Vesper had on Bond (what would it be like if Tilly met Vesper in heaven?), Vesper's betrayal would be one of those things to reflect on at that moment.

Also worth noting Bond is not aged 40 yet.
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I have no idea. Perhaps he doesn't count Vesper as that and sees CR as a foundation so the ending didn't count as a devastating loss to affect his life in that manner. Of course once "the bitch is dead now" happens she as an idea is primarily closed off to him and maybe that's it.

I adore Judy Havelock in this story (well admittedly I love all of Fleming's female characters) and wish more of that spunkiness had made it to the film instead of...staring.
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Maybe. But since she's supposed to be his first love and, as we learn as the series goes on, that he still visits the grave and all that, the mind wonders.

I agree, though I do like how the film took the the gambling aspect of Judy's character for Melina in the film, even if it is only one brief shot.
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