Melinda (pages back):
I think the whole point was that Jack had arrived, he thought, for all time, and that Ennis hadn't giving "for all time" a thought. They already had arrangements to meet the following month...or did you mean, givien more leasure and the lack of the girlds, Ennis might have given Jack's permanent presernce in his life more considferation? I don't think so...not till after Jack was dead...