![]() ![]() This book will fool you in so many little ways and mostly that is Bess’s fault. ![]() She’s lived with him for ten years so for all intents and purposes she is his wife except maybe in the eyes of the church. When she is first told about Halland she says she is his wife and then later she says she is not his wife. Although she is confused about her status as well. We know Bess didn’t shoot him, but then Bess isn’t his wife. ”Everyone avoids seeing a man born, everyone runs to see him die”. He thought he heard Halland say My wife has shot me. ![]() Well that is what the man first on the scene said. She cared about his well being of course, but was it more about the fact that he payed the bills and allowed her to continue to exist in her own world of writing, reading, and contemplation? For most of this book I was unsure how she really felt about Halland. It sounds selfish, but we see the world from our perspective, and everything that happens to us has to be first evaluated as to how this new development is going to affect us. I once read that when people we know die we don’t mourn their loss as much as we mourn the loss of our self that existed when we were with them. I can hear the modulations in his voice when we speak on the phone, and I know exactly what each of them means. I can read his slightest passing thought I can sense him without touching. I fell in love with him, of course I know. And what kind of secret was this? Maverick? I know what goes on in Halland’s mind. ![]()
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