Summary

Maisie Lord (edited transcript)

This section of Maisie’s transcript concerns her first impressions of Bruno and his relationship with Harry. She writes that Bruno was a complete opposite to her father in every way. But, Maisie says, her mother was also happier with Bruno than she had ever seemed with Felix.

Maisie writes that she knew only toward the end of her mother’s life that her father had ever been unfaithful, that her mother had kept his secret until then. She says that it is more difficult to accept unfaithfulness from a spouse than from a parent, because in some ways your parents are always gods.

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