Entry Two
After my experience upon the sun deck and its disgraceful denouement – for me, anyway – I promised myself, and with no small venom in the intent, to shun all further contact with both mother and daughter.
No need to say, life being nothing if not playful verging on the vindictive when it comes to the self-made promises and resolutions of men, that I seemed unable to avoid their presence – no matter how hard I tried.
Strangely enough, it was the daughter I came more in contact with and, though it was not my ideal preference, she at least would have no idea of what had passed between myself and her mother. Even if I suspected there was a… knowingness… in the young girl’s expression. A suspicion I immediately shrugged off as being as repugnant as it was ludicrous.
There was sure
