The Houseguest (2008)
“Perhaps Chuck had helped himself to certain items that were, speaking legalistically, someone else’s property, but if Mother had discovered a towel or two in his luggage, or even an ashtray, the primary question should be as to why she had snooped through the room! Surely it was a shocking breach of hospitality. Given his father’s own moral situation, Chuck’s was veritably monklike, and a few petty misdemeanors were unlikely to stain it.Which left the outlandish charges made by Lydia. So far as... Bobby was concerned, the whole business came down to this: if Chuck was guilty of raping the woman he had only just saved from drowning, then all of reality as it had been known to date had, with one event, been turned around to be precisely the reverse. Bobby disliked thinking further on this matter, for there could be no evading the possibility that his wife was suffering from a disorder of the mind, so ludicrously incredible had her story been. Were she simply being malicious (and if so, what could be her motive?), she would hardly have neglected to bring into the narrative the pistol, the existence of which was acknowledged.MoreLess
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