Obstacles

It's been over a month now, and I am still with Tom and Maggie.  Perhaps one of the reasons is that sometimes it gets hard for me when George Eliot uses the language with apostraphes and the slang use of words.  Sometimes I have to go back like twice or thrice with one sentence just to make sure that I got the right word and get the whole thought of what the character is saying.  Eliot does this on those things that the characters say.  The slang words are heavy really.  Like most of the time...

Anyway, Tom had reach a point when he has the opportunity to make more money for their savings to get them out of the hole that his family is in.  And the help came from one of the most expected persons in his life.  I was indeed surprised that this person would actually want and be willing to help Tom.  Considering what happened between them, I couldn't help but have some doubts whether this person might have a hidden agenda when it comes to helping Tom, and the family.

Maggie, on the other hand, has renewed one of her friendships from long ago.  But this kind of friendship is something that is not allowed with the family.  She has had some issues within herself whether she should continue seeing her friend.  She couldn't help but look back to that time that this friend of hers showed kindness to her brother.  Be that as it may, she couldn't stop her friend from not seeing her, although she already told so.

I now wonder how these two people would emerge out of this unexpected situation that came into our lives... and it has been for quite sometime now.  Quite sometime that Maggie learned how to accept her consequence; which I hope should only be temporary.  For one of Maggie's solutions to this situation is to be in privation; which actually deprives her of cultivating her talents.