Summary

As the title suggests, “Lucy & Klara in Love” details the young lovers as they begin their romance in earnest. Weeks pass and Spring arrives. Lucy spends his days working at the castle and his nights with Klara. One day, he asks Klara what they should do about Adolphus. He offers to fight him, and Klara says that would be “unwise” (143). Lucy says that he could fight Adolphus and win if he pictured the soldier in bed with Klara. Klara says that she never slept with Adolphus. Lucy asks who her first lover was, if not Adolphus.

Another interlude ensues, this one entitled “The Inveigling of Klara by the Strange Eastern Stranger, Godless Corrupter.” In the interlude, we learn how the stranger came to town to sell merchandise in the...