The Scarlet Godwins - Fifteen

Marley is feeling fobbed off. She accuses Otto of ignoring her,
not writing back, and not coming to visit. When she’s satisfied
she’s made her point, she takes up the story of meeting
Charlottes’s family for the first time, and reveals an amorous
secret while she’s at it. The person Otto is talking to in his
thoughts has yet to make an appearance. It is clear that when
this person did come into his life, everything changed. Being so
skeptical, and with the restraints of legal aid, Otto asks
himself, what exactly made him pursue Marley’s case? It may
simply have been, he reflects, that because he’d entered a period
of personal turbulence following the attack on him, he’d been
more inclined to see reasons why the case needed to be
investigated. But there were better reasons yet to come.