Behind Her Eyes

About two weeks later, Louise and David lie in bed in her flat. He has visited her three times in the last 10 days. Louise knows she is wrong in letting him stay but she can’t stop herself. She mostly manages to compartmentalize her feelings for both David and Adele. David explains why he became a psychiatrist, telling Louise about the little girl who followed him around on the farm and who had night terrors. He helped by giving her a book about it, but later she had therapy. Louise knows he is talking about Adele, but he never references her by name. David explains he “wanted to help the inside of someone’s head” (115), hence his vocation. He says he can help Louise with her night terrors, too.

Back in Westlands, Adele tells Rob to be patient with his night terrors/lucid dreaming training and that soon he will be able to picture the door and go whenever he wants. He opens up a little and tells her about his “shitty” (118) home situation and that he took heroin because it feels good. He encourages her to try it and she decides she will, although she knows she will have to keep it a secret from