![]() The candle had only been lit once, by her. Aubyn’s Juliet gives him a present: one of Lady Sorrel’s candles and a box of wax matches. He smiles, and this makes Juliet feel better. Clive tells her it’s because everyone they’ve loved has died. She asks Clive why Robert and Barbara are so afraid. She looks down at the breasts that are beginning to grow on her body and suddenly begins crying. The next day she is holding her doll, Amanda, its stitches coming undone. Juliet does not sleep that night, regretting what she has seen. ![]() It seems like he is angry and killing her. Barbara is pale and Robert’s neck is tight. She enters Robert’s room and sees he and Barbara making love, only it seems to her like they are hurting one another. She steals a dress from Barbara’s room and lights some candles. She sees Barbara go into Robert’s room and decides she can have some small bit of revenge by dressing up like Lady Sorrel's ghost and scaring them. Otherwise, she says in her diary, no one would have told her anything. Juliet feels everything she learned in life she did by blundering into a situation or room where she was not supposed to be. Once, when he thinks he is alone and unobserved, she watches him firing his gun at a tree. Juliet notices that Robert is very private, but also has a violent temper. He develops his affair with Barbara quickly, making it more difficult for Juliet. Nurse Babbington comes and Juliet is taken away and given a sedative. Juliet enters the room to find Taffler rubbing his wounds against the walls to make them bleed. She sees Barbara and Robert both leave Taffler’s room and embrace. Juliet gathers daffodils to bring to Captain Taffler. ![]() Robert returned from a walk outside excited because he has seen three foxes in the field while walking. He and Clive fight about it in the nursery. They seem to want to persuade him not to fight, but he has decided he will. Major Terry promptly leaves after the weekend and no longer pursues Barbara.Ĭlive arrives at the house with some pacifist friends. The next morning she finds their old Pin The Tail On The Donkey game and slips it under Major Terry’s door. She overhears Barbara call Major Terry “a jackass.” Barbara then walks down the hall and stops in front of Robert’s door before continuing down the hall and down the stairs into what Juliet believes is Captain Taffler’s room. Instead, she sees Barbara coming out of Major Terry’s room after what seems to have been a fight. She hopes she can follow her into Robert’s room and apologize for not warning him about Captain Taffler. That night Juliet hears someone walking and thinks it might be Lady Sorrel. When Robert enters Taffler's room, he sees that Captain Taffler had lost both his arms. Robert seems to be worried as to why Major Terry is there. On the way they encounter Barbara and another man, Major Terry, laughing and holding packages. Robert continues to inquire about Taffler and Lady Barbara, so finally Juliet takes him to see Taffler. The two of them chat briefly about their families and siblings. He inquires about Lady Barbara and Taffler. Lady Juliet takes him to his room and informs him that the room is haunted by a ghost named Lady Sorrel, who lights candles when she appears. Robert arrives at St Aubyn’s and is greeted by Lady Juliet and her mother, who mistakes him for a patient, embarrassing Lady Juliet. The invitation bears Taffler’s name, but is a forged signature. Robert receives an invitation to go to St Aubyn’s after the Battle of St Eloi. She made it an extravagant affair, something of which her father would likely have disapproved.Īfter the war broke out, Lady Emmeline convinced her husband to pull some strings to have their home, St Aubyn’s, declared a convalescent hospital. Juliet has little recollection of him but remembers his funeral, which she presided over as his last living heir. Her father had many mistresses and loathed his children and possibly his wife as well. The marriage between her mother and father, Lady Emmeline and the Marquis of St Aubyn’s, was not a warm one. Part Four of the novel returns to the transcript of the interview with Lady Juliet d’Orsey and addresses how Robert and Lady Barbara d’Orsey’s affair began.
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