Spark wrote well. But I was a little taken aback with his plot. Suppose if Cole did not die, his beloved would leave her husband of twenty over years and break the family up. I know things like that happen everyday in every part of the world where women have the legal right to sue for divorces. Yet somehow it would not fit in with my view of Spark's style of writing romantic novels.
Of course it ended well, there is closure. I know Cole died instantly from a head shot. He managed to save the Doctor's adult son from a certain death by Cole's kin. A life for a life! Even if Cole killed the Doctor in a car accident, he had been feeling the guilt all his adult life even after serving a maximum prison sentence. On top of all these, Cole's heart gave a second lease of life to his beloved's first born son. The story could not end any better. Just after the widow told him that there was no longer need to send her any money, he spent the last few minutes of his life saving her only son's life.
For those of us who are not wired like Cole or his mentor to love deeply, passionately only once in life, it is still quite an experience to read about a similar tale to the mute swan, who mates for life and would stay alone always if the partner for some reason died before its time.
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