"Oh, no, not at all," says Susan, who doesn't think of her assignation with Sagramore as him doing something to her, and who certainly doesn't mind that he was thinking about Janet the entire time, or want to tell Janet that Sagramore was thinking about Janet the entire time - she suspects Janet mightn't be so sanguine about it. That is, he apologized, which she doesn't care for, but she's never been interested in friendship with one-off sexual partners, so it barely registers.
Susan isn't typically very open about her assignations; this is partly because to date, there haven't been many important enough to bear mention, and partly because her friends, save Ingrid, had unwelcome opinions about their frequency and volume. Perhaps she ought to have mentioned this when it first came up? Now it feels like, if she doesn't mention it now, she's making it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is. Certainly the sex hadn't been good, but it had been pretty standard for most of her couplings immediately before her arrival, too, so it only stands out in the slightest in that she encounters Sagramore with greater frequency than 'never at all.' Ugh.
She rolls her eyes, conveying with every scrap of posture, tone, and expression that she can command that this is an entirely neutral tidbit that she's sharing, and clarifies, "I suppose I initiated a rather maudlin assignation when I first got here, and he's avoided me ever since. I don't mind, naturally; we don't get along. I just think that if there's a pattern of regretted behavior it ought to be a sign that the behavior should change. Otherwise it stinks of self-flagellation." Which she'd just been talking with Laertes about. Could he have meant...?
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Susan isn't typically very open about her assignations; this is partly because to date, there haven't been many important enough to bear mention, and partly because her friends, save Ingrid, had unwelcome opinions about their frequency and volume. Perhaps she ought to have mentioned this when it first came up? Now it feels like, if she doesn't mention it now, she's making it out to be a bigger deal than it actually is. Certainly the sex hadn't been good, but it had been pretty standard for most of her couplings immediately before her arrival, too, so it only stands out in the slightest in that she encounters Sagramore with greater frequency than 'never at all.' Ugh.
She rolls her eyes, conveying with every scrap of posture, tone, and expression that she can command that this is an entirely neutral tidbit that she's sharing, and clarifies, "I suppose I initiated a rather maudlin assignation when I first got here, and he's avoided me ever since. I don't mind, naturally; we don't get along. I just think that if there's a pattern of regretted behavior it ought to be a sign that the behavior should change. Otherwise it stinks of self-flagellation." Which she'd just been talking with Laertes about. Could he have meant...?