Henry Raeburn, Mrs. Alexander Allan With Her Granddaughter, Matilda, 1815ish(February 15) Love, love, love Isabel. But was a little disturbed in this book by how faithless she was about Jamie, and how she went to others first the moment she heard news that made her doubt him. Also noticing for the first time (or it feels like it) that Isabel is almost always 100 per cent wrong with her first conjectures. She is anti-Holmes, who always knows immediately who’s done the deed and only reveals it later. It’s a different way of keeping the reader in suspense, because you always want to agree with Isabel and her first conjecture.
Stories and misunderstandings were interesting as usual and Isabel is so charming in the way she thinks.
But she is always wrong and I think she always was and I just didn’t absorb it till now -- I gave her the benefit of the doubt.
Jamie cries a lot in this book. Thought that was going to come to something.
Also, garlic gets dwelt upon a couple of times, and I thought that was going to come to something, too.
Neither did.
And, in fact, a lot hinges on a visual impairment that we don’t know about till the very end... so... ::head tilt::.
Stories and misunderstandings were interesting as usual and Isabel is so charming in the way she thinks.
But she is always wrong and I think she always was and I just didn’t absorb it till now -- I gave her the benefit of the doubt.
Jamie cries a lot in this book. Thought that was going to come to something.
Also, garlic gets dwelt upon a couple of times, and I thought that was going to come to something, too.
Neither did.
And, in fact, a lot hinges on a visual impairment that we don’t know about till the very end... so... ::head tilt::.
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