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Date Posted: 16:34:34 08/24/09 Mon
Author: Carla
Subject: A very troubling Christmas all around for Casey, Pamela and Jamie.

Chapter 54 – Christmas on Board

The men are all engaged in various activities to help them pass the time on their first Christmas on the prison ship. Casey reflects it's not the best, but certainly not the worst Christmas he’s spent in his life. He looks over the contents of the Christmas parcel Pamela had left for him and the men closest to him – a thoughtful gift for each man, including the parts of a transistor radio allowing them some contact with the outside world. He’s writing a letter to Pamela, reflecting on all he can’t tell her for various reasons, and the spin he’s put on events that were not so light-hearted in the moment. As it turns out, there’s also a special gift in the package from Jamie – the tide charts for the Lough. We learn the rudiments of the men’s escape plan. Shane is having a bit of a hard time this first Christmas away from home, so the men talk about their own experiences being in jail over Christmas to ease his misery and show him that it’s not so bad as it could be. Casey goes outside for a breath of air and imagines how Christmas might have been had he been at home with Pamela and Lawrence.

Have you ever been apart from your family and close friends at the holidays or had someone important not there with everybody else for some reason?

Chapter 55 – Moth to a Flame

A big dinner party is planned for Christmas evening at Kirkpatrick’s Folly, the first in many years. Pamela hides in a corner, consumed by despair – over the baby, Casey’s fate and her feelings for Jamie. She admits her feelings to Small Davey of Armagh when he asks her bluntly if it hurts badly.

At dinner, all goes well until the subject of Phouka comes up. It seems Jamie had told Belinda it was “their” horse. Pamela and Belinda engage in a heated conversation which degenerates to name calling and wine throwing. In the aftermath, Jamie and Pamela admit to their feelings for each other.

Is what Pamela feels for Jamie really love, or is it more a form of possessiveness? She’s completely in love with Casey, and admits it, yet still wants to be central (in her words) to Jamie’s life. Would these feelings have come back to the fore if Casey hadn’t been interned?

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