Interesting Day at the Old Surratt Hacienda

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Don't poor Mary and Nora get to harbor secret feelings for anyone? Bummer.

I can easily see both Anna (who was 22) and Nora becoming all giggly at the thought of John Wilkes Booth becoming an acquaintance. I also think Mary would have encouraged a John + Anna relationship at first. Once Mary became aware of Booth's activities, however, I think she became strictly business.

As for Mary's behavior around Booth, I just cannot see her infatuated with him in any sense of that word. Motherly - maybe; friendly - probably; sympathetic to his original plot - yes. Anything further than that I just can't fathom. She had had enough problems with the men in her life as it was; to heck with adding on to the stress.