I'm surprised that Stokes recognized Julia's car. He would have seen it when Julia came to see him at his house, and he may have seen it at Collinwood when he went to ask about Angelique's portrait, but he wouldn't have associated it with Julia at that point. I 'm wondering if he has seen Julia driving around Collinsport, and thought to himself: "That's a fine figger of a woman! I wonder if she likes cheese?"
I hadn't previously noticed that Barnabas's expression of gratitude to Julia came right after she had indicated that she would take an interest in him where Vicky did not. It made Barnabas's statement quite touching. He couldn't love her, but this is this first time I've felt that maybe he was sorry. Sort of different from him telling Lang that it was "unfortunate" that Julia cared for him.
It's interesting that Julia went to Stokes for help on the dream curse, but then thought Barnabas might have made a mistake in telling Stokes that Cassandra was the witch. I just can't figure that out. I started out thinking, "Two different writers, the one not knowing what the other was doing" - but the second writer definitely knew that Julia had gone to see Stokes. I still like the idea, however, of not knowing whether Stokes was OK or not, and of wondering whether he was the slave in 1968 of Cassandra as Ben had been the slave of Angelique in 1795.
By the way, Barnabas asked Stokes if he always came and went so abruptly, and Stokes said yes. That wasn't what either of them was thinking when Stokes came to see Barnabas in the Old House and rambled on about Greek revival and drunken furniture-makers.
