I can see that I was set up to think well of Hemmingway by having the local Police Officer be such a dullard but I do enjoy his oblique approach to life.
I'm even starting to like Vicky Yes, she lives her life as if it were a Live Action Role Playing game but she is aware she's doing it. She's beginning to seem more connected to real life than Mary.
I loved this exchange between the two of them where Vicky calls out Mary:
‘You know, Vicky,’ said Mary, ‘I’m absolutely horrified by the way you talk about your mother! It’s positively indecent.’‘Dearest pet, the way I talk truly isn’t as indecent as the way you think,’ Vicky replied. ‘Because you’ve got the most degrading suspicions, and you disapprove of the poor sweet so much that you daren’t put it into words. I don’t disapprove of her at all; in fact, she has my vote.’
Although
2
0
