What was Evie the boarding house owner's relationship with Hubie Marston? I missed that part of the movie and the online synopsis only said that she played "evil games" with him as a teenager.
sharei watched the movie yesterday and can't remember specifics, but she said something along the line of writing leters in french for him
shareHere's what I think: Hubie was sending letters to Barlow. At that time Barlow may have lived in France and probably spoke French. Hubie didn't speak the French language, so he had Evie translate the letters. In one of his letters Hubie invited Barlow to come to his house. After fifty years (when Hubie was already dead for a long time) Barlow accepted this invitation and moved to Hubie's house in the Lot.
Straker knew of this story. He may even have been present at the time of the writing (maybe he wrote the letters for Barlow?). Anyway, he confronts Evie with the fact that she wrote/translated the letters for Hubie.
Well, nothing is said openly in the show (except for the writing letters in French to Barlowe), but Straker hints that she had orgiastic Satanic parties with Hubie and Hubie's wife, along with another village girl. The Marstens were into Satanism so there was something occultic going on...probably in the form of Satanic black masses.
shareThe books goes into more detail about eva and hubie's relationship. she and i think ben's aunt cynthia used to sneak over to hubie's house to take morphine and have "evil games"
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I don't remember that being in the book at all.
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It wasn't.
In the book, Eva has no connection to Hubie Marsten at all.
Hubie wrote the letters himself to Barlow, inviting him to come to the town. A translator would not have been necessary either, as Barlow spoke excellent English.
And in the book her name is Eva Miller and she is not french.
shareStraker mentioned something to Eva in the antiques store about a bunch of underage girls. It sounded almost like she brought girls up to Hubie. Then later she mentioned her and another woman used to sneak up there. It was not overly discussed what actually happened.
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