Liz faints so elegantly. The last time I fainted, I broke a chair. I did notice today, however, that Collinwood's mid-foyer table had been removed for the occasion, so perhaps, after all, there were some concerns beforehand.
Burke apologizes to Mrs. Johnson for losing his temper, and says it won't happen again. It's happened before, so Mrs. Johnson should know by know that it's bound to happen again, but Burke is paying her. What does she do with the money? She doesn't appear to need it; she always manages to land a job with room and board. Anyway, it was pleasant to see her telling Burke off. And I wish to apologize to the spirit of Clarice Blackburn, and beg her forgiveness. I suggested yesterday that she had laid it on a bit thick. How wrong I was! It wasn't Clarice Blackburn who was laying it on thick; it was Mrs. Johnson. That became clear to me today.
To help convince David to go away with her, Laura gives him not an electric train set or a baseballl mitt--but a music box?
It's a music box! On Dark Shadows! How could he
not want it?
What's the object on the right, immediately after you enter the front door of Collinwood?
It seems to me that there was a topic about that, years and years ago. I can't think of a good word to use in a search for that topic, however. I think it appears in all time periods, so it can't be an electric warmer to give you a blast of hot air when you come in from the freezing Maine winter air. Maybe it's got a slot in the top so you can drop your business card in for a weekly drawing to win a night locked up in the west wing.
I was thinking, as Elizabeth scolded David for seeing his mother, that she no longer had any reason to keep Laura from seeing David, because David now likes Laura. I've no doubt that this is due to some spell that Laura cast over him, but Elizabeth doesn't know that, any more than she knows that the picture of Laura, and David's resulting nightmares, came from Josette. But we do know that before Laura and Josette started David's head spinning first one way and then the other (hmm...I've never seen The Exorcist, but doesn't something like that happen in that movie?), David had declared that Laura wasn't his mother. What a long time ago that was! So Elizabeth is right to want to keep Laura and David apart - but the reason is hidden like a pea beneath a few layers of spells.
I thought Laura was just going to let Burke leave, rather than conciliating him. After all, she doesn't need him to help her get David anymore. But I suppose it makes sense for her not to assume she won't need his help in the future.
