Aunt...!?
Was she in love with Morris or what? I think I saw her kissing his cut hair, and whenever she talked about him there was a gleam in her eyes. Also, Catherine accused her for ruining their relationship. Ideas?
David Traversa
Of course you are right! The auntie was certainly infatuated with this very good looking chap (wouldn't you?) but being what the moral standars were at the time, she couldn't certainly drop on her knees in front of him as they certainly would do in a movie with nowadays standars (and in no time, mind you).The poor soul contented herself during a WHOLE YEAR with smelling and kissing a bit of hair cut off from his gorgeous skull. Victorian Times, my Dear.
But maybe that was infinitely more thrilling than our present directness, with its lack of the necessary mistery between two human beings to keep the enchantment going. And remember that she was 'of a certain age', single, and no doubt, a virgin, so, it must have been hard times for her (I can imagine how she must have bended her confessor's ear at the confessionary talking about Morris!).
The Aunt was a widow. Her husband was some sort of church figure.
Candy is like music. For it to be good, you've got to remove all the wrappers.
Not only that davidtraversa-1, but I'm sure Aunt Lavinia got a little sexual thrill having Mr. Gorgeous Skull schmooze her for insight about Catherine and visit so often. After all, it's not like she could hit the nightclubs with her girlfriends and find a man for herself.
She didn't seem to have much of a life of her own.
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David Traversa
Hi, Devans00!! I was pleasantly surprised reading your answer (ten months later) to my email! But it's all right, the thoughts are put down on the page, somebody sees them a few months later and decides to answer them. Fantastic. Why not? It seems that we both agree about Auntie's troubles. And of course nowadays she would have it easier... (Really?) I don't know..., we are so fixed with age limits now, that what was gained in freedom is being lost due to new and different contemporary problems. The thing is: We should never age. So far, scientifically that's impossible. In the future, maybe. Now, we are stuck. And so was Auntie in her own time.