Things that make me laugh: if I WANT to read someone angsting over the feeling that he’s not really part of the family, people are just humouring him, he’ll have to leave one day…I’ll just go read Captain Jim and Billabong’s Daughter again and enjoy Wally’s depression.
“I wish it had been me. I’m nobody’s dog, and he was just everything to you two—and the best friend a fellow ever had. It would have been so much more reasonable if it had been me. I just feel that I hate myself for being alive. I would have saved him for you if I could, Norah,”
and
“I was nobody’s dog till you brought me here”
Wally’s very wrong about this too. But he has to learn that his own way.
Plus you know I get Wally/Norah if I’m reading them, and they’ve only been my OTP since I was a kid for oh so many reasons.
