June 9th, 2005 at 1:00 pm (Summaries)

A few days later Cal visits his father to see whether he has recovered. Cal discovers that Shamie is still mentally ill and therefore has stopped work. On his way home he has to cheek into a garden because Crilly‘s mother comes along.

As usuall Marcella gives Cal a lift to church and one day, on their way back, she tells him that her parents-in-law go to Belfast for a week because Mr. Morton has to have another operation.

During this week, Dunlop stops working earlier as he used to and so Cal does. After Dunlop has left Cal walks upstairs to Marcella‘s room. He snoops around in her room, looks for her dresses, her underwear, smells her perfume, and also finds her diary and reads in it.

In the evening Marcella returns home from work. She invites Cal to an Italian dinner and Cal agrees.

Before Cal goes to the dinner in his best clothes he buys a bottle of wine and whiskey in a pub. During the dinner they talk and drink a lot. Finally Cal is drunk.

For coffee they go to another room. As usuall, Marcella is talking about Robert and her life while she moves closer and closer to Cal. Suddenly he kisses Marcella but she refuses and tells to him how childish it was and that she wants him as a friend and not as a lover.

On Wednesday it starts to snow. In the evening, Marcella knocks on Cal‘s door and wants to apologize. Cal and Marcella drink tea with whiskey and talk. After some, time Cal kisses her again and this time she does not reject him. Cal confesses that he loves her. Their kisses become stronger and more emotional and finally they make love. Cal seems to be embarrassed because it´s the first time for him but Marcella softens him.

Later they return to the house and Cal worries about her getting pregnant but she says that she has used a diaphragm.

In the farmhouse Cal and Marcella continue drinking and they make love.

Afterwards Marcella tells him that she and Robert had not have sex for a long time before his murder. At this time she had not had the feeling that he had been mentally with her while making love. Although Robert had told her lies about almost everything, his mother had continued to support him.

Cal returns to the cottage for sleeping, because Lucy should not see him in the morning.

The next day Cal does his Christmas shopping. He buys a book on Grünewald and a perfume, for Shamie the usual after-shave and a shave-stick, furthermore a jigsaw. In addition, Lucy will get a Raggedy Army Ann doll.

After his shopping Cal goes over to Dermot. He gets to know, that his father had been admitted to hospital. This is the reason why Cal will not be able to see him.

At the library Cal realizes that Marcella has taken a day off. Nevertheless, Crilly is there and he tells him about the IRA’s plan to burn the library down. Cal is even more horrified when he hears the only reason: The library is state property.

Crilly forces Cal to come to his house. He tells him that in the meanwhile old Skeffington had been injured severely. On his son’s order Crilly had knee-capped the assassinator with a captive bolt.

Then Skeffington himself arrives. He wants to persuade Cal to stick with them - otherwise he might be killed.

At that moment the police enter Crilly’s house. Cal is able to escape but the other two IRA-members are arrested. He tells the police anonymously that a bomb had been planted in the local library.

Back at the farm, Cal gives the Christmas presents to Marcella and Lucy. After the girl has gone to bed, her mother and Cal make love. The boy thinks about telling Marcella the truth but he is still too afraid.

Cal returns to the cottage. After Skeffington and Crilly have been arrested, he had already expected the police and at night they come to imprison him.

Katrin & Katharina