The Scarlet Godwins - Seventeen

In this rant of a letter, Marley, furious at Otto for challenging
her credibility, remonstrates with him freely, before she
discloses more scientific facts about her body, explains why she
lied to the jury in her trial, and appears to deny that Julius
Haft was of any consequence. Otto is thinking about his journey
to London, on the pretext of investigating Marley’s case further,
but in realty, in order to meet, for the first time in nearly two
decades, his daughter, Izzy. His thoughts take him to Marley’s
astonishing eighteenth letter, which introduced the poem Two
Birds.