How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
He put his two hands on the mantelpiece and his forehead on his hands. He stood like that a long time. His grandfather had built this great house. His mother had played on the floor of this kitchen. Was it here his father had come—his father, the French doctor?...Doctor Latour the Bible had it. Here was mystery surely. Why not Doctor Tremain? And why had the Bible said both he and Lavinia Lyte died of plague in Marseilles: 1758—three months before he himself had been born? Does it matter? Does it—or doesn't it? No. He answered his own question aloud, and took from his pocket the heavy pages he had cut from the Bible, all written over with the names of his genealogy. He could not think now why he had ever cut them out. Slowly, tearing each sheet to ribbons, he fed them to the fire upon the hearth. (8.2.28)
Wow, so Johnny takes the pages that prove his relationship to the Lyte family (to himself if not to them) and destroys them. Why does he do that? To prove to himself that he doesn't need the Lytes? To take away the chance that he'll ever be tempted to go to them again? Because he's happy with his life and doesn't want it to change now?
Quote #8
"My grandfather built this house…"
"My mother knew and loved it…"
"My father dead before ever I was born…"
Now, for as long as it stood, this would be a haunted house. He felt the ghosts waiting in the darkness until he and Cilla were gone before they stepped forth to take possession. Merchant Lyte—soon enough he too would be back here. Miss Lavinia? She might live to be a hundred, but the time would come when, wilt she or not, she must return to this house. This haunted house, with its thin wreath of wraiths and his mother's among them. (8.2.30-33)
Here we have the Lytes getting gothic on us again. Why is the house haunted now? Was it not haunted before? Does Johnny believe that the house is haunted by literal ghosts or is the narrator referring to memories? Also, why is this house so important all of a sudden? We've only heard it referred to as the Lytes's country house, so why is it now the place all good (or bad) Lytes go when they die?
Quote #9
The young woman sat at last and murmured, more to herself than to Johnny: "I must talk to you, Jonathan Lyte Tremain."
Johnny raised his eyes in amazement. (11.4.38-39)
This is the first time anyone but Johnny himself has used all three of his names. Given everything that has happened so far, how might Johnny feel about Lavinia Lyte's use of his full name?