The Scarlet Godwins - Seventeen

In this rant of a letter, Marley, furious at Otto for challenging her credibility, remonstrates with him freely, before she discloses more scientific facts about her body, explains why she lied to the jury in her trial, and appears to deny that Julius Haft was of any consequence. Otto is thinking about his journey to London, on the pretext of investigating Marley’s case further, but in realty, in order to meet, for the first time in nearly two decades, his daughter, Izzy. His thoughts take him to Marley’s astonishing eighteenth letter, which introduced the poem Two Birds.