There was a weird shadow on the left half of Charity's face as she talked about staking the vampire - as if the light were shining through a trellis or something. It was if she were a harlequin.
I don't remember Tim knowing that Barnabas was a vampire. He knew about Dirk, but did anybody tell him about Barnabas? I think he knew that blackmailing Edward wasn't an option, but he was certainly ready to ingratiate himself wherever it might profit him in the future. Incidentally, the visit to the cave was a perfect murder setup, if only there had been a reason for Tim to murder Edward. I think it's admirable of Tim to need a reason before he'll murder somebody.
I have no doubt that Kitty was a golddigger. She came to Hampshire House as a governess, and married the Earl. Alas, Petofi ruined the Earl - no details as to exactly how - and I assume that the Earl's children, who were not her children, saw through her and made life uncomfortable for her. So she has come to Collinwood to marry Edward. It's a bit of a comedown from an English Earl to a house, however big, in the wilds of Maine, but she'll be comfortable, and she'll be as good a wife to Edward as she was to Gerald, I'm sure, especially if he invites her to accompany him on lots of business trips to Boston. But will she ever let Edward meet her mother? I suppose that depends on whether Mama is genteelly impoverished or the Stella Dallas type.
As Kitty and Edward talked in her room, I wondered about the Earl's servant Edward. I'm sure he existed. Did he devotedly follow his master to the grave?