her actions, has set it up so that she would use the morphine as a means to try to kill herself. · In the novel, David had no motive for killing his sister, especially when it would mean depriving himself of the Cloade fortune. In this adaptation, however, he is upgraded to a mass murderer who wanted revenge against his sister for marrying Gordon and excluding her brother as her "first love". David plotted his revenge by raping and impregnating her Irish Catholic housemaid, Elieen Corrigan, and then performing an induced abortion on her, breaking her and forcing her to submit to his will by promising her heaven if she obeyed him, and threatening eternal damnation in "the fires of hell" if she refused. He then took Eileen to a bomb shelter in the basement and forced her to pose as his own sister, whom he then slaughtered along with the entire Cloade estate by a surprise attack of blowing it up with dynamite.
They solaced their wretchedness, however, by duets after supper, while he could find no better relief to his feelings than by giving his housekeeper directions that every attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister. Chapter 9 Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister's room, and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters. In spite of this amendment, however, she requested to have a note sent to Longbourn, desiring her mother to visit Jane, and form her own judgement of her situation. The note was immediately dispatched, and its contents as quickly complied with. Mrs. Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest girls, reached Netherfield soon after the family breakfast. Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, Mrs
It is true that we are making very fine distinctions here. Someone might well deny that all the foregoing word uses actually differ in meaning, and it may be suggested that some of the differences are only of tone or of connota- tion. But when we ask, as a diagnostic, whether a sentence of the sort listed can simultaneously have more than one truth-value depending on disam- biguation, the answer is obviously yes. Kittay reminds us of Peggy Parish's children's books, whose main character, the housemaid Amelia Bedelia, is deaf to such variations. When asked to `dust the furniture', she uses a powder-puff to spread face powder on the furniture; when required to `draw the curtains', she produces a sketch of them; and when asked to `dress the chicken', she puts a miniature pair of trousers and shirt on a bird intended for that night's dinner. (1987: 111)
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