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Good. Too bad it’s the last in the Two Rivers series. But one’s wondering about the geography of the setting; the detectives drive inland from Barnstaple and end up on the seacoast in a fishing village with two piers. Why weren’t they just driving along the coast? It must be a cultural thing…

Starting ch.2. the intro and ch.1. were rough to read, very circuitous reading; there’s plenty that JG Gager and his group don’t understand about people and about God.

Her ex-husband from whom Syb divorced 25 years earlier, passes away overseas.she never remarried, he did. He married Lina, a woman diametrically opposite to his whole life in the States with Syb and the kids. She had no strings to him at all and was too sickly to attend his funeral. Who thinks going blind is a walk in the park, in any case?

Two years of letter correspondence have passed in the book.

Just finished reading Félicie est là.

It’s about how out in Jeanneville in the French countryside beyond Orgeval, Maigret got involved in the senseless murder case of Jules Lapie, and either he self-identified with the murder victim or fell for the chief murder suspect. But something funny happened to his psyche, apparently. But whatever it was, it passed and became only a temporary state, just to solve the murder case.

Out in Jeanneville in the French countryside, beyond Orgeval, Maigret got his psyche into the murder of Jules Lapie, got under the skin of the protagonists of the murder case and wouldn’t have minded jumping into bed with the saucy chief suspect, apparently.

One of the most memorable passages: Rom.13:11-13a. Further, there is this, realize what time it is, that it is now high time to be awakened from sleep; for now your salvation is nearer than when you believed. The night is far gone; the day is near. So then, let us put away the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light. Let us walk in loveliness of life, as those who walk in the day,

Boating in England, good enough of a holiday for anyone.

MACBETH, Act IV Scene 1. Thunder. Enter t 3 Witches
FIRST WITCH
Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.
SECOND WITCH
Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined.
THIRD WITCH
Harpier cries “’Tis time, ’tis time!”
FIRST WITCH Round about the cauldron go;
In the poisoned entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Sweltered venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ th’ charmèd pot.

Somewhere a few chapters back, Flāvia requested to leave the boarding school, presumably to return to Buckshaw.
By 91% of the story read, she not been kicked out as predicted.

Flavia is still banished to the big, bad T.O. and has just discovered that but for her own family’s financial generosity to the dastardly boarding school, the school would seem to have had to close down permanently, like due to a total dearth of any other development funding. So now in thanks, she’s being coached as a cadet in the mysterious arts and crafts of some arcane spy school.

Flavia’s been banished to a roomy but gloomy boarding school for girls in the big T.O. Ont, Canada.
And the first syllable of her name Flav- rhymes w brave !