Violet had written “free submission” in the margin next to a passage discussing r**e. Kierkegaard’s seducer writes, “No, when one can so arrange it that a girl’s only desire is to give herself freely, when she feels that her whole happiness depends on this, when she almost begs to make this free submission, then for the first time there is true enjoyment.” Ugh! Johannes was making Dana’s skin crawl.
Several pages later there was a marginal note that confused her. Next to the underlined sentence, “A simple engagement is the best of all the methods, the most expedient,” Violet had written in the margin, “cigar band = engagement ring?” What could that mean? Was there any chance Larry would know?
Dana wondered if she should call Lieutenant Hanson to tell him about the clues she’d just found
