VV(13): Enters Weismann.

Michel Ryckx michel.ryckx at freebel.net
Mon Apr 9 12:54:08 CDT 2001


236.20 Vera Meroving, presented like an Amazone: 'jodhpurs and
army-shirt, smoking'.  In the background 'cries of pain lanced...'
(236.22).  Mondaugen notices her hands trembling (237.13)  A few moments
later, ...'Weissmann appeared in mufti from behind an
unwholesome-looking palm and pulled her by the hand, back into the
depths of the house'. (237.18-20)

Note he 'pulled', and not 'took'.
'From behind': was he watching them?

That is the way Weissmann is introduced: in the middle of or just after
cries of pain, a woman trembling, she not knowing what it was like
outside
(237.12).

238.  Mondaugen sees the both of them through a mirror.  She, 'striking
at his chest with what appeared a riding crop' (238.4-5), he talking so
that 'the voyeur Mondaugen could lip-read each obscenity' (238.7).

And why is Weissmann's hand 'curiously gloved'  (238.12)?

Enters Weissmann amidst terror and pain.

Michel.



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