The Scarlet Godwins - Fifteen

Marley is feeling fobbed off. She accuses Otto of ignoring her, not writing back, and not coming to visit. When she’s satisfied she’s made her point, she takes up the story of meeting Charlottes’s family for the first time, and reveals an amorous secret while she’s at it. The person Otto is talking to in his thoughts has yet to make an appearance. It is clear that when this person did come into his life, everything changed. Being so skeptical, and with the restraints of legal aid, Otto asks himself, what exactly made him pursue Marley’s case? It may simply have been, he reflects, that because he’d entered a period of personal turbulence following the attack on him, he’d been more inclined to see reasons why the case needed to be investigated. But there were better reasons yet to come.