![]() The people of the town grow very curious of her new guest and of Miss Amelia’s hospitality towards Lymon which is contrary to her characteristic untrusting and remote ways. She readily provides Cousin Lymon with food and board, and eventually any material object that he desires. ![]() In the mid-1930s, several years after Miss Amelia’s divorce, Lymon, a hunchback, comes to Miss Amelia claiming to be a distant cousin. Just as love had changed Marvin, so too did it change Miss Amelia. Several months after the divorce, Marvin reverts back to his initial corrupt ways and is “sent to a state penitentiary for robbing filling stations and holding up A & P stores”. After ten days, Miss Amelia ends the marriage because she finds that she is unable to generate any positive feelings for Marvin. Once married, Miss Amelia is very aloof towards her husband and refuses to engage in marital relations with him. Miss Amelia does not love him but agrees to the marriage in order to satisfy her great-aunt. ![]() Two years after Marvin’s reformation, he asks Miss Amelia to marry him. ![]()
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