When I saw Carolyn in the drawing room in her bathrobe (or was it a peignoir or a negligee?) I thought to myself, "Oh, goody, goody, Barnabas is going to tell the Josette story!" And lo and behold, he did. It was like kids around a campfire telling ghost stories. My enjoyment of the episode was enhanced by the fact that it was dark and snowy this morning where I live, and when the power was flickering at Collinwood, it occurred to me that the power could conceivably go out here - which would have been a tragedy, in the middle of Dark Shadows. I've got to get myself a generator to run the TV and DVD player in case of such dire emergencies.
Why did Barnabas come over to Collinwood? Was he feeling restless because he could never get Maggie alone? It couldn't be that; he disposed of babysitters later on without any trouble. Perhaps his restlessness was due to exhilaration - despite occasional hitches, his plan was going well: Maggie knew she belonged to him, and she would, in the fullness of time, come to him permanently. Anyway, I thought of Mrs. Whatsit's line (pause while I check to make sure that it was indeed Mrs. Whatsit) in A Wrinkle In Time: "Wild nights are my glory."
I still have trouble with the concept of a shipmaking family deliberately building a house where they knew the storms tend to congregate. Never mind, it was a great episode.