What sweetness John Karlen is capable of expressing! I don't think of him that way at all - but there it is.
Melanie says Con-cord, while Kendrick says Conkerd like me and like everybody I know, except for those who say Concud. I expected Julia to say Conkerd but she said Con-cord. I sure that Flora, if she ever says the word, will say Con-cord.
Julia desperately asks questions of James Forsythe, and he refuses to answer. Kendrick asks questions of Julia, and she refuses to answer. Somewhere there must be somebody asking questions of Kendrick that he refuses to answer. Or maybe not. Maybe a daisy chain isn't the right picture for this. Maybe I should be thinking about focal points and force fields, about Julia just being the center of all tension. I'd say she's the eye of the storm, but there is sunshine at the eye of the storm, and I don't see it in Julia. If somebody dropped Julia off Widow's Hill, would the Room suddenly become a place of happiness and light?
Finally Kendrick is presented with the fact that Melanie is not entirely the sweet, innocent creature that she seems to be. I expected him to ask Julia, "What have you done to Melanie?" but was pleased to note that he did not immediately assume that it was all Julia's fault.