Eugene wonders if the bliss of a young girl's embrace is worth the terrible wrath of his wife's discovery.
As heard by us
A lakeside courtship becomes a quiet study of desire and inward strain.
The chapter lets Whitlip do a lot of the work: the boathouse, lane, grape arbor, bench, barn studio, and house visits keep Eugene moving in a small, charged world.
Why you'd press play
You get a lakeside flirtation that keeps turning into a private moral tangle with a weather-beaten bench.
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