Summary

In Part 10, David wrote to Edward every day for two weeks. He heard nothing from Edward and so his letters went unsent. His aimlessness turned “into desperation” (88). He refused Charles’s invitation to go out. The more distant David became, the more Grandfather worried. In the past, David had struggled with depression and periods of confinement. The next time Charles wrote, David accepted his invitation.

In Part 11, David visited Charles’s home. David wanted to be “childish and sullen,” but Charles’s pleasantness “coaxed him into conversation” (92). When David became lost in thoughts of Edward, Charles noticed something was wrong. David insisted he was fine and they kissed. Over the next weeks, he kept seeing Charles. They became intimate. He did not “reciprocate [Charles’s] declarations of affection,” but continued having sex with him (97).

At the orphanage, the matron told David that...