Silver Blaze: Infidelity

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: Silver Blaze
Title: Infidelity
Author: Castiron
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Mrs. Stryker reflects.

I knew nothing of my husband. Of course I wondered when he spent nights away -- all wives suspect -- but many men must work night and day, and he provided well.

She and I compared marriage licenses, afterwards. I, at least, was his legal wife; she, the bigamous connection.

Still, I cannot bear to wear the dove silk with ostrich feathers.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Nice twist at the end.

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Ooo. Very nice and twisty. You have a very good way with that (the twist).

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[debriswoman]

Lots of pieces to fit together after the events
Nicely done.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Echoing the applause for the twist. You do have to wonder about "Mrs. Derbyshire" - what exactly her position was and how much she knew about what Straker was up to.

[grrlpup]

Oh, my. I love this and it sent me down a rabbit-hole googling "men with double lives." :)

[sanguinity]

I like the idea of Mrs. Derbyshire being the legitimate wife. The implications in the story are so strong that "Straker" was the "real" life and "Derbyshire" the "false" life, but real/false is such a squirrelly thing, and especially so when you're extending the view to the two very real women involved.