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RE: Day 696: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: naked baby
Oh am I ever rooting for a love affair between these two. What is up with Mrs. Thornton?
Thanks for tagging me on these. I have to log into esteem to get the tags though. Maybe there is some sort of setting I need to adjust on steempeak, which is the platform I usually use. Anyhoo,
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What is up with Mrs. Thornton? An abundance of caution. She does love Captain Lee, BUT she also sees their professional situation and also the deep scarring he has after 23 years of hard military service. They have only known each other for seven months, with three months of all-out crisis at their shared place of work. He has literally and personally disposed of FIVE of her immediate superiors, who just happened to have been corrupt commissioners of police, in that three months. She knows Captain Lee is a dangerous man, in addition to being a perfect gentleman who is kindly disposed toward all the good women around him -- that runs in the family, given that he has a REAL 19th-century uncle whose orders disposed of 100,000+ men's lives in defense of the desire for PERPETUAL slavery under the Confederacy. So: Mrs. Thornton is not letting her heart run away with her head!
And that is why he likes her.
He RESPECTS her, in both what she does and what she is not willing to do ... he knows she is full of love and compassion for the people around her, and that she is not going to create situations of temptation and embarrassment any more than he will. That, by itself, is sufficient for him to consider the possibility of being with her for a lifetime, should he decide upon remarriage.