Journal Entry #3

"I wonder if he read the notion on my face; for all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly. I tottered, and on regaining my equilibrium retired back a step or two from his chair." ---- " Go and stand by the door out of the way of the mirror and the windows."---- "I instinctively started with a cry of alarm: not soon enough, however,; the volume was flung at me, and i fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it."----"Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there." Page 11-12
-OMG! So John Reed just hit her and then threw a book across the room and made her hit her head on the door and cut it, and his sisters just stood there and let it happen. Then his mom came in and told the servants to lock her away in a room. i can't believe that he isn't getting in trouble for beating the crap out of Jane. Like his mom doesn't even care. He's going to grow up to be a wife beater.