Vicky is so old-fashioned about the marriage proposal! "Oh, Mr. Devlin, this is so sudden!" And she never imagined she'd get married? I'm ten years younger than she, and I always assumed, when I was growing up, that I'd get married. Later I imagined a blissful existence in a huge house, with me at one end of it and my husband at the other end, and still later I decided that I wanted to be a divorcee - I get the house and the dog, he gets the kids - but the initial assumption remained that marriage was unavoidable.
If I were to ask somebody's advice on marriage, I'm not sure I'd ask Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. She smiles benevolently, but her own choices in the field of marriage haven't been ones that I'd care to emulate.
Is there a known joke whose punch line is "I'm calling you from Paris"? I seriously thought about requesting lead-ups to that line in the Games section. Which reminds me, totally OT, that I've never heard the one about the travelling salesman.
And so we come to the conversation in the Blue Whale that Jonathan Frid remembers so fondly. I like Barnabas when he's being deviously bad, but if he wants to kill Burke, shouldn't he be a little more careful about not arousing people's suspicions? Well, yes, of course he should, but self-control was never one of Barnabas's strong points.