It finally became too much for Roger and one night he angrily lashed out at Barnabas over Barnabas' all too frequent habit of asking what exactly Roger did at the Cannery!

Barnabas's attempt at a psychic link with the spirit in the painting of Old-What's-His-Name Collins was not going well.   First, he had no psychic powers, he had just assumed he did.  Second, Old-What’s-His-Name didn't have any psychic powers either!

Setup:

After Maggie didn't work out, David was intrigued when his Aunt Elizabeth hired a ghost to be his governess, and he wondered if his next governess after Beth would be...

David was totally shocked by what he discovered in the family photo album from 1795: there were no photos!!!

Sandor, as I remember it, Carolyn was the initiator.

We got a closing bookend today.  When Carolyn first met Chris several weeks ago, she went and looked at herself in the mirror by the front door, and seemed ready to initiate kissing immediately.  Tonight after Chris left, she again went and looked in the mirror by the front door, and I thought to myself: "Drat! Ned Stuart must be about to appear."  And sure enough he did, with no explanation for his resemblance to Jeff Clark.  It's very unsatisfactory.  There is no attempt whatsoever to make him look different from Jeff.  I guess Dan and Norma Curtis thought he was so perfect that they didn't want to touch a hair on his head.  Couldn't Ned at least have said that his Great-Grandmother Stuart's stepmother's maiden name was Clark?
 
I like Chris's 1am transformation.  I had been wondering why Chris never transformed during the day when the moon was full.  I'm unversed in astronomy, but I know I've seen the moon during the day on occasion, and I think it was full.  Or have I been dreaming?  Anyway, it didn't make sense for the transformation to be always a sunset to sunrise thing.

I liked the thunder during the voiceover.  Joan Bennett said there was a storm going on, and I thought, "Yup, knew that already."
 
Roger's great.  He goes to London for weeks, is completely unavailable when anybody tries to call him, and then comes home and is sure he knows better than everybody what is going on.  And nobody's asking him why he never answered all the messages that I assume they left for him at the hotel.  Maybe Elizabeth did in the car, but I don't have that impression.  On the other hand, Julia backed Barnabas up in public when they were talking with Elizabeth but argued with Barnabas in private, and Roger backed up David in public but felt snubbed by him in private, so maybe Elizabeth did rake Roger over the coals in the car for neglecting his family, and maybe Barnabas and Julia discussed in private Roger's London silence, and maybe we missed a conversation between Maggie and Mrs. Johnson on the same subject.
 
How many messily abandoned rooms are there at Collinwood?  Those people need to hold a yard sale.  And aren't there any big rooms?  The place is a rabbit warren   I'd like to see a ballroom.  I suppose the size of the studio didn't allow for such a thing, but I still would like to see one huge room.  The revival series has a plethora of huge rooms, with completely level floors too, and I don't like that because it just seems unnatural (it may be real, but it's unnatural), but a house the size of Collinwood should have a ballroom.  Oh, well, maybe Joshua thought balls were a waste of time and Abigail thought they were the devil's work.  Poor Naomi.

Note: reading the Preview of this note, I keep seeing "bathroom" for "ballroom" and "bath" for "ball".  Either will do.

Please finish Aristede’s Christmas letter for him:

Seasons Greetings from our happy home, with hopes that 1898 will be as good for you as 1897 was for us!  As you can see from the enclosed picture....

Doublemint Monsters!

Oh, dear, that's how I'll think of Chris and Tom from now on.