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Returning "Persuasion" to Kate

posted 9 years ago by Midgegirl
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Other than it being a quirky, "ta-dah" moment in the film, why did Alex go to what must have been considerable trouble hiding the book under the floorboards of a building mid-construction, making Kate wait several extra months for a treasured book she'd expressly asked him to retrieve [and then not telling her!!...] when he could have sent it to her via the mail box, as had happened with the scarf?

I mean, we all like a romantic gesture- but surely just returning the book was romance enough, without showing off?

[–] Dark_Sithlord 9 years ago

Alex returned the book totally water-damaged and in fairly poor condition on top of everything else. He must have been pretty certain Kate would have noticed the floorboards for his romantic gesture to have any impact.

[–] IcingOnTheCake 9 years ago

Her apartments were still under construction during his time. He knew the number of hers and placed the book in something that he knew, as an architect, was finished and wouldn't be altered.
She'd asked him to not write and she stopped taking mail from the box.

[–] Midgegirl 9 years ago

Ah- fair point: I'd forgotten she'd asked him not to write.

[–] GiovanaSamara 8 years ago

And, even though he kept writing (there are a few shots of the letters piling up in the mailbox), she never went back them to retrieve the letters.
His only way of doing it was to enter the construction site, after all he was easily able to use his status as an architect to be allowed in without much trouble.