I can't help feeling the count was harsh on Mercedes. I expect she thought he was dead. You can't expect a young woman to grow old spend the rest of her life alone and in poverty just because her boyfriend died.
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I can't help feeling the count was harsh on Mercedes. I expect she thought he was dead. You can't expect a young woman to grow old spend the rest of her life alone and in poverty just because her boyfriend died.
I agree with you. But according to the romantic ideal of the time, that provably was exactly what she was expected4 to do.