What spoony love was this that had engendered such a state of affairs, what confabulations was she to experience henceforth, almost unable to believe that she had fallen in love with this monster,who had slain five as if he were disembarrassing himself of vermin in the granary;how to proceed with the knowledge that she was complicit morally if not in law, compelled to bear witness as she advanced to the mortuary to identify the results of her boyfriend's nocturnal escapade.