10 pm.--I have visited him again and found him sitting in a corner brooding. When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and implored me to let him have a cat, that his salvation depended upon it.
I was firm, however, and told him that he could not have it, whereupon he went without a word, and sat down, gnawing his fingers, in the corner where I had found him. I shall see him in the morning early.
Renfield says that his salvation depended on getting a cat. If this is not mere hyperbole, perhaps he somehow feels that having a cat will keep him from murder, which is a mortal sin?
Posted by: Most Significant | July 19, 2021 at 09:23 PM