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Daniel's pretty much cover my thoughts on this.

Pathologically, Caspar toyed with a girl's emotions all his life and psychologically wrecked, and yet he still had the audacity to parade his wrongs in front of her without the slightest fear she'd betray him.

Margarita may have been the bullet, but Caspar was most certainly the barrel.

And now to begin translating Chapter 3 Scene 3 so we can fill in this first half of the book:


 * The Felix manor is smaller than the Blankenheim mansion, but the richest home in all of Toragay.


 * Hanne's ringing the doorbell and a female servant immediately answers the door. Clearly the Felix family is much more financially stable than the Blankenheim family, absed on that fact alone.


 * Hanne wasn't sure what to answer when a servant asked who she was; weighing all her options, she half-lied and said she's from the Foundation and needed to speak with Marx about a "job" (I assume she means the case).


 * The servant looks at her quizzically, uncertain about such a promise/appointment and Hanne apologizes for not giving them notice as it was "urgent", saying she needed to speak with him about some new facts regarding Caspar.


 * The servant just states that her master has retired to his bed for the day. It's 2 pm so Hanne naturally thought that sleeping at that hour was odd and asks if he was feeling sick or anything.


 * The servant says she didn't ask, as she had saw him sleeping that morning and decided not to wake him and let him rest, assuming that everything with the Marquis really accumulated on his anxiety.


 * The servant says that so carefree but Hanne (I think) feels her chest jerk at that. He's still asleep.


 * Hanne's immediate thoughts (since she can't imagine the servant is lying) are to how Caspar and the mistress didn't seem like they had suffered........ It was as if they were asleep!


 * Hanne: "Excuse me!" She forcibly pushes the servant out of the way and rushes into the house, ignoring the cry of the servant behind her.


 * Thanks to the nameplates on each of the rooms, it was easy for her to find Marx's bedroom. She checks in, and yep, he's sleeping (or rather, that's how it appears to be at a glance).


 * Hanne approaches him and puts her hand over his mouth; when the servant enters into the room after her, Hanne desperately screams for her to call the police. The servant is shocked and Hanne urges her: "Immediately!! ...... He's not breathing."

And so the scene ends. Afterward is the Puerrick and funeral scene. I'll give a brief look at that and then move onto chapter 4 (which has more Margarita).