Quote Originally Posted by pejanon
Hi Sir L



Are you refering to Return to Roissy or Mad Lews of Sir Stephen's Confessions?
(Don't remember Return very well - always seen it as somehow fake, even if Reage did write it.)
i referred to the published book. The first chapter and the second ("return to the chateau" and "the story of O").

To the peoble commenting that Sir Stephen just left her. I must say that the ending of the story seems wrong to me, and as if it was just thrown in at the last moment as an apology (you cant make an happy ending to something so vile). Think about it, sir stepehn had sent her to marie for further training, then upon achieving that goal he just dumps her after she is just the way he wanted her to be. That doesnt make sence to me. Also the ending isnt writen as an story, just as two or three sentences which shortly describes what happens. Not alone that, there is also more than one possible bad ending.

I think she (the author) felt the dilemme the filmproducers felt when they made "the secretary". They had a lot of problems getting support to the film. The reason was that when peoble asked: when does she get cured of this? They replied "she doesnt", which im afraid doesnt fitt well with "normal peoble".

So because im not really convinced of the ending, in either book, i will not judge the characters from the ending given. Instead i will judge them from what they did in the first book "the story of O" before the ending. And from that i dont hold any "grudges" against sir Stephen, but do find rené to act a bid odd by just giving her away like that.

just me substituting reality for my own image