“This isn’t what I want to do. I don’t think it ever was. I wish I’d realized it sooner, but I realize it now.” She pushes to her feet, her face like a storm cloud. “You can’t be serious!” “But I am. I leave tomorrow. Chicago, then California.”
He’s a “worldly man” but tells the publisher of newspapers exactly where he’s going? It doesn’t occur to him that she might rat them out to Belle’s father in revenge just as she also tells the man of the story she’s about to run to bring down his empire?
How is Hemi suddenly so naive?
