This is fabulous - thank you for posting it! I really like the combination of arrogance and hopelessness, especially this bit:
Indeed, on occasion, she had appeared to his experienced eye to be susceptible. If he had learned anything in the two years he had known Harriet, it was that her prickly integrity was central to his desire. But stubbornly, perhaps perversely, he refused to consider that approach. He wanted all of her, or nothing, even if nothing seemed increasingly likely to be what he would get.
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Re: Don't know what the etiquette is on these things...
Date: 2009-11-20 12:48 pm (UTC)Indeed, on occasion, she had appeared to his experienced eye to be susceptible. If he had learned anything in the two years he had known Harriet, it was that her prickly integrity was central to his desire. But stubbornly, perhaps perversely, he refused to consider that approach. He wanted all of her, or nothing, even if nothing seemed increasingly likely to be what he would get.