I was wondering a good deal about what Harbour referred to, when he made this remark to Wilbur "It's nice that people find each other when they don't have anybody else".
I tended toward thinking that he was talking about Alice and himself. Alice had been in desperate need of a husband and Harbour loved somebody else to take care of besides his brother Wilbur. So their marriage could be thought of as an obvious thing to go into, since they both needed somebody, just like Wayne (the lorry-driver) and Moira (the nurse).
The relationship between Wilbur and Alice was on the contrary not practical at all; it created guilt in both and pain in Harbour and wasn't anything that is publicly approved of. It was true and deep love, which Wilbur seemingly hadn't encountered before.
But when I read your post, electrolite, it hit me that Harbour also could have hinted at Alice and Wilbur finding each other in lack of anybody else. In that case he had reasoned that Alice needed somebody since he himself was in hospital, and he had always wanted Wilbur to find a girlfriend. This must have given him more comfort than the first possibility, since it wouldn't question the love between Alice and himself.
I don't mean to say that this love wasn't true or deep, I'm sure that Harbour loved Alice very much and that she also loved him, but in a different way than she loved Wilbur which was probably more passionate and exiting.
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