You've touched on something here that sort of needles at me about the Will/Elizabeth dynamic, which, though far from ideal, I think is the intended and appropriate ending. Even after all these months that they've apparently been spending time together, Elizabeth doesn't seem to understand very much about Will. She trusts him implicitly, but that's hardly more than a surface insight into his character, and, after all, he has always been socially inferior to her. But she doesn't seem to really know him, what's unique and wonderful about him, and that's an aspect to the relationship that's always needled me. I think it's basically due to poor writing more than anything, but the text we're given is the one we must interpret, so...

Excellent comments above, BTW.

-G. ;)