An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance

Author:Megan Chance [CHANCE, MEGAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780446560153
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-05-29T14:00:00+00:00

Notes from the Journal of Victor Leonard Seth

Re: Eve C.

April 23, 1885

I fear I have made a grave mistake in treatment. Yesterday Eve came to me at my home, obviously distraught, and I was so concerned to see her there that I rushed into a crucial step in her treatment. I had meant to take things more slowly, to bring Eve into the world of physical passion more carefully, and now I am afraid I have undone all my painstaking work. She responded eagerly, of course—her reaction was exactly what I would have wished it to be in its right time and place. But now is too soon. Now she wants to reveal all to her husband, to leave him, and this would only cause a scandal, which would hopelessly cloud the acceptance of any scientific strides I have made. I should have planted the ground more carefully, more judiciously. I do not understand myself. I was never so careless before; in the past I have approached this level of treatment with the utmost care, as have all of the physicians I’ve known. Such treatment requires the most exacting dispassion. All I can think is that I have spent so much time thinking about her, agonizing over the correct path, caught up in the excitement of creating such a vibrant being—to mold her with my own hands!—that my judgment was momentarily impaired. Thus far I have been meticulous and deliberate. I cannot afford to be so careless now.

I can only hope this does not have the consequences I fear it will, though I am not confident. She told me that her husband has forbidden her to see me again. If she were to tell him of this episode, I have no doubt she would be removed from my care—from my reach—completely. I cannot allow that to happen. Not when I have come so far. I must meet with him, take pains to reassure him, and then I must retread this ground carefully and not allow my success to lead me into false confidence. I must not allow her presence to muddy my own thinking. Once the experiment is done, she will be free to pursue her own path, whatever it may be, wherever she can climb from the rubble of her past life, and I will ascend to greater heights, to the accolades of my peers. This is my purpose. Scientific inquiry. Knowledge to change the world. I must remember this and not allow my own passions to gain sway.

Slowly. I must go more slowly.

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