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« on: September 29, 2014, 12:40:54 AM »
Nancy B VO; liked phrase "blood red Sun" in it. Welcome back Tim, not for the last time, at the Blue Whale with Aristede, who feels out Tim's knowledge of Quentin to prep for their next meeting by asking things like, "I fight dirty-- does he?"
Charity may feel her prim and proper exterior so fools people that she can get away with exhibiting lust for wealth and sex without anyone questioning it! Her father can't be the best example. Charity has been around to see all sides of Gregory, and she may assume the entire rest of the world sees all those sides and is still fooled, too. It doesn't. A Narcissist, as I understand it, I think, is careful about showing certain faces only to certain people, and are pretty strict about that.
So, Charity makes an abortive first attempt to enter the Drawing Room while Quentin's in it, backs out, primps in the mirror, then makes her supposedly much better and smoother second attempt a moment later, as if we get second chances like that...
DL will remind me what Charity says she forgot, and what clever things Q said, once I read her post, but I liked Charity telling Q, after having been questioned about having time to go do the thing she said she went and did in five seconds... "I'm very quick!" The steam rising off of her repressed being could have powered the next train to Boston.
Tim then eavesdrops at the Drawing Room doors, as Charity obediently leaves, and Magda gives Quentin the good news about her chopping up of the Hand! After the obligatory strangling of the gypsy, Tim delivers a note from Aristede about a meeting. Magda reveals to Tim that he's an unwitting poisoner. Charity gets to tell Tim off, before he leaves to spy on the Old House goings-on. He sees the reconstituted Hand giving Magda the willies and chasing her away. It settles on the floor. Tim comes in, knows how important the Hand is, thinks it's his birthday. End.