“You make it out as if Ruth is a sadist. She isn’t. It’s just…I’ve read a theory once that prehistoric man sacrificed the most precious things they owned to the bogs to appease its gods and spirits. That’s why we find swords and jewelry and other lovely things there. Ruth was drowned in a bog. That means she was someone’s precious thing once, so precious they cut and choked and stabbed her till she finally died. It’s not so strange then, is it, that Ruth sometimes shows her love for me through violence? And now I don’t want to talk about it anymore.”
