So what is Laura anyway? Is she a ghost, a phantom? She seems to be solid. How can there be two lockets?
I can't figure it out. The duplicate locket is a stumper. But whatever Laura is, I don't think she initiated it. Initially she didn't seem to know why she was in Collinsport, and then things became clear to her. She voluntarily told Vicky about the locket, and it seems plain to me that she had no idea that the locket story would come back to haunt her.
I'm even less convinced today than I was yesterday that Josette has anything to do with any of the pictures Sam has painted of Laura. Josette would not want to scare anybody, even if it was for their own good. She's a comfort ghost, not a warrior ghost.
When I was a kid, I hated that kind of patronizing on Sam's part-- the cider and cookies diversion.
Maybe it was patronizing, but it was kind of Sam not to go into his "I hate that painting" rant with David, so I was all for the cider and cookies diversion.
Elizabeth is worried how Laura effects David.
Good for Elizabeth, pointing out to Vicky that what matters is not how much Laura needs David, but rather how much David needs Laura.
The picture in David's room of the mother holding her child keeps catching my eye. Previously it hung on the wall over his bureau, but yesterday when he was putting string on the picture of Laura so he could hang it, he had apparently taken the mother-and-child picture down, and it was on floor, leaning against the wall, and the picture of Laura was hung in its place. Today, to my surprise, the mother and child picture was still on the floor rather than having mysteriously disappeared, and I expected Elizabeth to suggest putting it back over David's bureau, or at least to comment on it. But it just was there on the floor, with nobody paying attention to its message: "This is what
true maternal love is."
