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It was the "and if that failed … I smiled." that struck me as sinister. I guess he might have been thinking of more romantic solutions (astrangerhere brought up the idea that Dick and Vita might be swingers - I don't really see that), but as a thought immediately following the talk of henbane, and preceding talk of digitalis, it didn't seem like a pleasant one. There was nothing else that made me think Dick would see Vita harmed (he might want her to leave, but that's something else), so this stuck out and made me wonder what might be coming. I can see it is possible I may have misinterpreted it - but not certain that I did.
They were on holidays, they had someone cook and clean for them, so drinking to excess seemed not that unexpected to me.
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