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Tzivia Adler asked this question about The Distant Hours:
So confused about something, it's not super essential to the plot so I can't understand why it's even put in there! Saffy is cleaning out Junipers room on the day they are waiting for her to come home and finds and reads her diary describing her having sex with Thomas.... but that didn't happen until Juniper was in London and she never came home from then until this day so how did the diary get into Juniper's room?!
Lis Carey Honestly, I think it's pretty clear, at least to me. Juniper, the most natural writer of the family except Raymond Blythe himself, wrote about her sex…moreHonestly, I think it's pretty clear, at least to me. Juniper, the most natural writer of the family except Raymond Blythe himself, wrote about her sexual fantasies about Thomas Cavill. Remember, they didn't have sex before London, but she did meet him before, at Milderhurst, and he was as near-naked as any early 20th century woman could see a man not her husband.

She had strong sexual feelings, and fantasies about Thomas Cavill. She wrote them down, convincingly enough that Saffy couldn't tell whether it was fantasy or realty (remembering that Saffy had no experience, either.)(less)
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