Status Updates From Mary Reilly

We finally meet the assistant face to face at 56%

The curious psychological relationship of Dr. Jekyll to Edward Hyde might be best explained by...untangling the complex threads that so loosely knit the conscious to the unconscious. It is a mysterious connection and one that would surely repay study, for who among us has not felt...the press of an unconscious desire to create havoc? Is it not the fear of this impulse that drives us to insist upon social order?

It does seem clear, and rather sad as well, that Jekyll closed himself up in his cabinet in a state of despair, knowing that he could no longer keep Edward Hyde at bay. To share one’s body with a dangerous criminal is not a fate anyone would willingly embrace, but to share one’s consciousness as well, which it seems was in some degree Jekyll’s unhappy condition, this must be terror indeed.

That this involved losing a foot or so in height a total change of features and coloring as well as a stripping away of the effects of age...strains credulity, but surely Jekyll would have found...moving pictures...equally as incredible. Theexperiment...must then gradually have gotten out of control requiring more and more of the chemical to effect the transformation back into Jekyll, until at last no amount would do

She rarely used punctuation at all and her method of capitalizing proper names was erratic, though it is interesting to note that she always failed to capitalize the word “i” and never failed to capitalize the word “Master.”

Are we seriously not going to find out about the possible botched abortion, the murder, or the poison? Interesting note from the author to the audience that they'll publish the prequel [if this book sells well enough, nudge nudge].