ladyherenya:So, this moment in Have His Carcase:“Then why did you come?”“So that you might not have
ladyherenya:So, this moment in Have His Carcase:“Then why did you come?”“So that you might not have to send for me.”“Oh!”Harriet’s response suggests that Peter is right. Needing his protection is awful but it would be worse, in her eyes, if instead things had became desperate and she’d had to ask for his help. Then she wouldn’t just be irritated with him, she’d be angry with herself, probably bitterly. And so Peter is not just butting in uninvited, he’s trying to be considerate and help her as unobtrusively as possible. Is this why he keeps tossing off-hand proposals into his conversations? As a distraction? Because it’s easier for them both if she thinks he’s come racing down in the hopes that she’ll say yes? I wonder, because this particular conversation seems to suggest that he really gets that she’s in no way ready to say yes…“Listen, Harriet. I do understand. […] You don’t want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.“ “That’s true. That’s the truest thing you ever said.” This is what they’re dancing around. Or perhaps, what Peter’s dancing around. Not how Harriet feels about him, but how she feels about being in any way dependant upon another person. -- source link
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