![]() One short story has the 60 something main character remembering a transatlantic crossing with another character of about 17 as “he had made love to her in a discreet man-of-the-world fashion “ I initially took that to mean they had spent a lot of time together flirting and he’d gotten a huge ego boost from a pretty girl paying attention to him, but a friend thinks they were sneaking off and getting busy all over the ship.Īny context you could give would be helpful. I’d assume if they were actually sitting down to tea and chatting about a girl having sex and then being left, it would be presented as much more scandalous. ![]() ![]() She had felt that Hercule Poirot should not have been included. The Hollow's adaptation for the stage gave the author a chance to correct what she had long considered a serious mistake in the novel. I’ve gotten through quite a few books and noticed that when characters mention “making love” it can mean anything from sitting next to someone having private, lovey dovey conversations to full on banging, resulting in “getting in trouble”.ĭoes she change the meaning of the phrase in her work as time goes on and it starts to just mean sexual acts? It seems weird in some of the earlier books that prim, proper people talk about a guy “making love” to a girl and then moving onto another girl in a very nonchalant way. An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. ![]()
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