The exchange of letters between Wendy and Jennifer, while Jennifer was living in Gregory’s cellar, began with this letter from Wendy to Jennifer:
10 November
To Mr. Joshua, the bear in distress,
My name is Wendy. I always watch you from the sky. Mr. Joshua, why are you trapped down there?
(Found in the “Gingerbread House” chapter, inside of something that sort of looks like a cradle in the cellar bedroom.)
Wendy tells Jennifer, in the letter, “I always watch you from the sky.” The word “always” seems to me to convey the idea that Wendy had NOT just discovered Jennifer, but rather had discovered her some time earlier and then watched Jennifer regularly over a period of time WITHOUT ever making contact.
This always struck me as sort of creepy.
If jennifer arrived at Gregory’s house at the end of June 1929, that means that Jennifer had been living with Gregory for more than four months by the time of this letter. For how much of this time had Wendy been watching Jennifer before finally making contact?
Had Wendy been making visits to Gregory’s house even before Jennifer’s arrival?
Had Wendy been friends with the original Joshua, coming to the house to visit him?
Could it even be that the original “Joshua” had died earlier than June 1929 and that Wendy had actually been the “Joshua” of Gregory’s diary entries?
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