She isn’t jealous of Annette exactly. The only thing enviable about her position is that Wes will soon grow bored of her and Margaret will never be free of him. No, it isn’t Wes’s attention that she wants. Not attention from him, anyway. She’s lived here her entire life, but few in Wickdon look at her like they look at Wes. Those who don’t hate her for her sullied blood only pity her. She resents him, unfair as it may be. Even though she knows she never will be, she wants to be something more than her grief and fear. But she won’t admit that to him.
