STORY STARTER
What is the first sign of trouble in Emily and Alistair's marriage, and how does it escalate?
Identify the specific event or conversation that marks the beginning of the end of their relationship, and explain how it grows more strained over time.
Ponderingβs of the curious mind (Part 5/End)
Emily Crumpβs sudden disappearance was the talk of the town for a long awhile after.
No towns folk dare say a word around his presence, but he was aware of the chatter and rumors spreading either way.
Of how she had a secret affair and finally ran off with that said man. It wasnβt true obviously, but hearing that one rumor being the most agreed upon and spread around made him feel an unbridled anger inside.
Not that he could say anything to current it in fear of being caught on to his secret livelihood.
So her kept silent.
But her disappearance was the start of many slippery slopes that would begin Alistair Crumpβs eventual downfall.
His later second and third wives, who were just as unaware as Emily once was, eventually came to realize that if she did run off from him then she had been the wisest out of all his wives upon discovering how unbearable he could be.
And his staff, who missed the ever so kind and polite De Claire so, began to suspect something was afoot about her sudden disappearance. And that he had something to do with it.
And that someday theyβd stand to his mistreatment no longer.
Someday heβd get his comeuppance ten fold.
End.
