american tragedy

Chapter 82 (1)
Chapter 239 (1)
The opposition of two parties, and the fact that neither one is really capable of dealing with the situation, will of course lead to great disaster, barring good luck.But Roberta was always showing up at the factory, and he couldn't get away from it.Perhaps he would think more calmly if he could persuade her to leave here and not see him all the time.In fact, he is different from before, he is too obsessed with Sandra, day and night miss has made him dizzy.

Even when it came to a head, he was still thinking about Sandra's obsession.Now he is often invited to lunch at Harriet's or dinner at Taylor's. He is not alone with Sandra, and he is very excited just to meet her.Of course, to those of the more conservative older generation, there is nothing special about gatherings.

Mrs. Finchley, who was more socially sensitive, was at first puzzled by her daughter's and others' excessive enthusiasm for Clyde.However, gradually, he also noticed that more people invited him, so she didn't care much about her daughter's affairs.Sandra and Clyde have been secretly in contact with Clyde without telling her mother, and others have already had a general idea of ​​the degree of their intimacy. They often indulge in a kind of fantasy, imagining that they can go boating on the lake together in summer. She lay in his arms in a terrified state, and she used eyebrows instead of words.

The pressure of the real world is not at all in the fantasy world, there is only love, pastoral scenery, their idyllic happy life, and finally they get married steadily and without hindrance.

And at this moment, for Roberta, two more long, bleak, death-scaring months passed.She didn't take the step that was different from Clyde's that she envisioned at the beginning.If this step is taken, Clyde will definitely be ruined and reviled by others.Because she also knew that Clyde didn't really want to marry her, except that he was thinking of ways to escape responsibility, but, like Clyde, she was just delaying time without expecting any action.In previous conversations, she had also expressed her desire to marry him, but he had repeated his threats, only vaguely.He would never be compelled to marry her unless she complained to his uncle.

In his mind, unless he can maintain the situation now without other influences, he has no power to restrict her from marrying, and at that time, when she is in need of help, he will not help her a little .By this hint, Roberta also recognizes a cruel heart that Clyde had not fully exposed before.In fact, as long as she thinks about it carefully, when he forced her to let him into the room, he had already revealed this character.

She hasn't done anything yet, but he is afraid that she will do something at any time.So, before she threatened him, he had to change his indifference and pretend to be kind.Because he found himself in a dangerous situation, he played more tricks.Moreover, he still has an extravagant hope, and it can't be said that he has real confidence, that is, if he pretends a little more, pretending to be considerate to her.If there was no other way out, he would in the end be willing to marry her (though in fact he would not), so that her confidence in pressing him to do so at once could be weakened at least to a minimum.Moreover, he can have more time and think of all possible ways to escape, so that he can neither get married nor be forced to escape.

Although Roberta also sensed the reason for his change of attitude, she was so lonely and in a trance.Therefore, she was also willing to listen to Clyde's kindness even though it was pretending.So she was at his mercy and decided to wait a little longer.As he said now, he could use this time to save a little money or make some work arrangements so that he could at least take some time off and get married somewhere else.She could be a legally married woman elsewhere, and when she and the child were settled, he could come back to Lycurgos and send her money to the best of his ability, which he didn't tell her. Explain clearly.But of course this was on condition that she must never say anywhere that she was married to him except with his permission.Another bit of understanding, she's also said many times that she's willing to do it, as long as he does it and marries her, that is: she needs to separate from him, for abandonment or something.The place needs to be far away from Lycurgus, and no one else should know about it.As for the time, it was agreed that it would be some time after he married her, and although he was not satisfied with this, if he thought he married her, she would definitely do so.

But when Clyde proposed this idea, of course, he didn't mean it sincerely. As for whether she was sincere, he never cared.Nor did he really want to leave Lycurgus, even if it was for her to get out of this situation.He must go away for a while, unless he is compelled to do so.Because, if he were away for a while, it would definitely hinder his own plans very much.Therefore, he just procrastinates blindly, and sometimes thinks of a fake marriage out of boredom.He'd seen it in the goofy movies, a false priest and a few false witnesses combined could fool a simple-minded country girl, it just took some time, some money and some courage , but he also has self-knowledge, knowing that he really can't do it.

He also knew that unless he had a very special power, otherwise, he was rushing towards a catastrophe now, and it would not take long before it would appear on it.He even had, therefore, the strange method of denying any affair with her at all, should the time come when his life was at stake, and Roberta, who would no longer accept any further delay, should expose him. In other words, the relationship between them is always just the relationship between the department head and the employees, and nothing else.Terrible! Terrible!

But at this time, that is, in the first ten days of May, just as Roberta was explaining to Clyde because of the characteristics of pregnancy, and she was very firm: no matter how calm she was, after June [-], she would no longer be able to Work in the factory, because at that point, it was no longer possible to hide the people in the factory.And at this time, Sandra told him that she, her mother, and Stuart would come to see the new house being built on June [-] or [-] at the latest.After that, at eight o'clock that night, the Cranstons would be there and some others, and Bella and Myra might be there too.At that time, the Cranston family will invite him to spend the weekend, and she will arrange this matter through Bettina, and if it goes well, other families will also invite him to spend the weekend.And the Griffiths' on Greenwood Pond, where he could go without trouble, too, thanks to Bella.In short, Clyde doesn't need some money, he can enjoy the life on the lake that he usually only sees in newspapers, and he can meet Sandra in other people's villas.Besides, the masters of the villas would welcome him to them.

At the same time she told him that, because of his constant attention to her, her parents had talked, for the first time in their lives, of traveling to Europe for two years.Seeing that Clyde's expression darkened when he heard the news, she was also very sad. She said that things would definitely turn around.Because unless something relatively sudden changed her mother's mind, there was little hope.Then Clyde became dizzy from the heat, and thought about elopement and marriage, thinking that it would be useless for her parents to object.As a matter of fact, in Sandra's mind, similar thoughts did appear in the past, but they were suppressed all the time.She then explained to Clyde that her mother wanted her to marry a young man of the right kind.She said confidently: "Our biggest difficulty now is that we are still young. But in October, I will reach my age. By then, I can marry whoever I want. And, to achieve my goal , there is more than one road!"

(End of this chapter)