I asked yesterday why Laura had so little time - why the fire in Phoenix hadn't been done sooner - but today my impression was that that was an irrelevant question. There she sits, when no one else is around, conserving whatever strength she can draw from the fire in the fireplace. It appears to have been the fire in Phoenix that started the clock ticking, not the fire a century ago, so rescheduling the Phoenix fire wouldn't have changed anything. But why was there a fire in Phoenix? No doubt tomorrow I'll declare that to be an irrelevant question.
Burke kissed Laura at the end of their scene together, but on the whole I didn't get an impression of physical interest in her on his part. He wasn't getting into her space. And yet my understanding is that there was quite a bit of physical closeness between them in the days before she married Roger. Oh, well, maybe five years of prison had a dampening effect on Burke.
Laura was quite rattled by the idea of a séance with the object of contacting Josette. What does she think might come of it?