Chapter 9! Tomorrow I'll be starting a new book, which I don't think I'll enjoy as much as this one. Though there might be a nasty fiancee in it, IIRC. Here's hoping. Sorry - back to Always and Forever:
Oliver works out that Miriam had lied to Amabel, so he makes a point of meeting Miriam so he can crush her dreams of marrying Oliver forever. Meanwhile, Amabel is at home. Her mother and stepfather have laid off the woman who came in to help every day, on the assumption that now Amabel will do that work. They don't need to save the money, but they're cheap. By the way, characterization of Amabel's mother flies out the window in this chapter - it was believable that she was willing to turn a blind eye to Keith being a jerk because she was newly married to him, but it's not likely that she would accept Amabel having to give up her job to work for her, unpaid.
Anyway, Oliver delays his visit to Amabel, because he's busy. By the time he gets to Lady Haleford's house, Amabel has been at her mother's for nearly two weeks. He makes quick work of extricating her and proposing. To my amusement, Amabel asks whether he'll always kiss her so enthusiastically when they're married; when Oliver answers in the affirmative, she replies, "Then I'll marry you, because I like being kissed like that" (p. 250). It's rare for me to be surprised, or amused, on the last page of a Betts, so I'm savoring this one.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment