Adelia and Sir Rowley Picot

I for one never thought (even now I can’t believe it...) that Adelia would in the end for in love with Sir Rowley Picot. For one thing, they never appealed to me as a couple. Also, in the beginning of the book, Adelia detested Sir Rowley Picot while Sir Rowley Picot quickly found himself at odds with Adelia. They hated each other. They loathed each other. They abhorred each other’s presence as if it were a contagious disease that could infect them just by sharing the same air. Okay, maybe it wasn’t to that much of an extent, but still they really did dislike each other.

Sir Rowley Picot had at first hated Adelia because he felt that she was too cold. He felt that she was too unemotional as shown when she had diagnosed the corpses of the children and yet somehow still managed to remain calm while any other sensible young lady of her time would have gagged their breakfast, lunch and dinner out. And then should have quite possibly fainted. But Adelia on the other hand, was seemingly unnerved as she probed the body for clues. And for that, Sir Rowley Picot hated her. Even he had shown disgust at this “inhuman procedure” and dishonor of the dead. And yet Adelia was neither disturbed nor disgusted in his eyes. To him, she was too professional and in that professionalism she had lost her “humanity”. Because she was too calm, sir Rowley picot thought her to be too uncaring and too unemotional.

However, this is proven to be very much untrue. Throughout this entire scene we could see that Adelia was barely keeping her stomach in check. She had only managed to get through with the procedure by repeatedly telling herself that she wasn’t looking at children’s corpses but at the body of dead pigs. While, this may be seen as cruel and uncaring in Sir Rowley Picot’s eyes, this was the only way for her to remain calm and appear as he thinks “undisturbed”.

Then from Adelia’s point of view, we can see that she dislikes him because he treats her coldly because he believe that she herself is cold. Ironic, ha? Not only that, but in her eyes, he is also a suspect for murder. While he serves as an indispensable ally, he could also be the killer. And I wouldn’t blame Adelia for thinking that at all. Even I as I read though the chapters had my suspicions about him. And it was a big shocker for me to realize that it actually wasn’t him at all. And it was an even bigger shocker, when he would become Adelia’s love interest. Like I had completed ranted on about before, these two don’t seem to fit each other too well. However, now that I think about it, in a twisted type of way they do. Like magnets. The negative and positive don’t seem to match each other at all but somehow they are attracted to each other. And I guess Adelia and Sir Rowley Picot are a perfect example of this. Two completely different persons who in the end by a series of mystery and murder become inexplicable close.