Julia confirmed for us that there were indeed multiple Tate portraits of Amanda. The two that we have seen are exactly alike, so apparently Tate was not inspired to show her in different poses or with different expressions. If he painted those duplicate landscapes as well, then I have to wonder a little more than I was already doing about the limitations of the artistic talent that Petofi gave Tate.
Stokes was very nice to Julia today in the scene in the drawing room at Collinwood. It was the sort of scene that generates fan fiction pairing Stokes and Julia romantically, but even when Barnabas is being as stone cold evil as he is now, I can't imagine Julia ever getting him out of her system.
Barnabas said he would obey Alexander when Alexander was grown. Not a pleasant prospect.
We got a fairly good look inside the Leviathan box today. It seemed to be empty, but there could have been something - a picture, say - in the bottom. My impression, however, is that the contents cannot be experienced by the five human senses. How does it work? I suppose only a Leviathan can comprehend that.
