The mood is confusing for Mary when Patrick went to talk to Mary he ruins it all. He told her that he is planning on leaving her and that he won’t stay for supper with Mary. “And he told her. It didn’t take long, four or five minutes at most, and she says very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word.” (Dahl, 2). The quote shows us that the mood is a bit confusing because she doesn’t know what Patrick means by the first few words, like she doesn’t really understand what he means. Although she got confused about what her husband told her, but the mood changes when she is thinking of her alibi. The mood is cool and calm after when her husband died, she was thinking of her alibi and rehearsing it, so that when the police come, they won’t think that she is hiding something from them. It affects the mood because she needs to think calmly and need to be cool in her space in their home, she cannot be distracted or else she will forget her lines. “It was extraordinary, now, how clear her mind became all of a sudden. She began thinking very fast.” (Dahl, 3).
