Creed-Drunk
Phillotson enters what is now Sue's bedroom and begins undressing before he realises she is there. She mounts the sill and leaps. He lets her go unconditionally. For one night her ideas have the courage of a broken window. The later return is not a deeper version of this jump. It is the jump's collapse.
Key Insight
Conviction looks like this when it still has a body behind it: an irreversible physical refusal. If your later morality requires you to call this night wicked, you are not refining the belief. You are swapping it for shelter.
“Before he had thought that she meant to do more than get air she had mounted upon the sill and leapt out.”Full analysis
