What an episode! So many riveting scenes packed in.
Angelique is to be congratulated on reaching a new low today. First she made Barnabas miserable by causing Josette and Jeremiah to betray him. Next she manipulated him into agreeing to marrying her, even though she knew that he doesn't love her. And today she would not give up even though she knew that the marriage would impoverish him and create a rift between him and his father. Nice work!
Naomi's gift of the Old House to Barnabas is another example of the many good deeds with unfortunate consequences in the 1795 storyline, but at this point I don't think it matters. It is hypothetically possible that if Barnabas and Angelique had relocated in some place far, far away from Collinsport, Barnabas could have gotten a job, recovered from the pain of losing Josette, and found some happiness in his wife's devotion. But I think that Angelique is fundamentally too discontented for that. She's always going to want something. If Barnabas had been easily attainable, how soon would she have tired of him?
