Trask certainly proved today, when he was lambasting Charity, that the best defense is a good offense. I'll have to try that sometime. But maybe I'd better practise it in the privacy of my boudoir first. It wouldn't do to start laughing in the middle.
I had the feeling that when Trask tore up the confession, he was tearing the sky apart, and that was the cause of the storm. Of course that was incorrect - but I liked it anyway. Oh, and about the darkness...the other day around 5pm I was thinking, "Yup, winter's just about here, it's getting dark at 5:00...oh, right, it's still September. It's just the weather."
Does Charity know that it was her own father who gave Tim Shaw an alibi in the murder of her mother? Apparently not. She probably thinks that is merely through the incompetence of the local police force that Tim hasn't yet been hanged. Being Charity (and therefore uncharitable) she probably has made a few nasty comments to some of the officers on the beat about Tim, and, not wishing to provoke a public scene, they have nobly kept their mouths shut.
I'm surprised that Trask wants a portrait of Charity. No, I'm not. I'm surprised that he publicly admits to wanting a portrait of Charity. It seems uncharacteristic. Incidentally, is the murder of Minerva all that Petofi's going to address regarding the truth about Trask? I don't deny that murder is bad, but there is so much more to the evil of Gregory Trask!
