
I chose Mrs. Spence as the subject for this assignment.
My hypothesis:
She is very lonely and searching for love. She believes that she is something special for Mr. Hutton and that he is in love with her "Gioconda Smile". She is very naive and dumb.
My proof:
1. Her Gioconda smile, he had once called it in a moment of half-ironical flattery. Miss Spence had taken the compliment seriously, and always tried to live up to the Leonardo standard. She smiled on in silence while Mr. Hutton shook hands; that was part of the Gioconda business.
2.One morning he interrupted her in the midst of her customary tirade. “By the way,” he said in his soft, melancholy voice, “I suppose it was really you who poisoned Mrs. Hutton.”
Miss Spence stared at him for two or three seconds with enormous eyes, and then quietly said, “Yes.” After that she started to cry.
3. “Marriage is a sacred tie, and your respect for it, even when the marriage was, as it was in your case, an unhappy one, made me respect you and admire you, and—shall I dare say the word?—”
“…yes, love you, Henry, all the more. But we’re free now, Henry.”
And then she says “Oh, Henry, Henry, I have been unhappy, too.”
Isn't that naive? Why would you expect someone like Henry to love you? It is so easy to understand that he is playing with you, unless he confesses his feelings and asks you to be with him. My advice for ladies: Wait for man to make the first move toward the relationship, othervise you can get into incomfortable situation.
