Consider how Marshall spends altogether too much time on the
budding relationship of these non-characters and how at its semi-resolution, Syrena does something completely inexplicable, then something else completely inexplicable, leading to ambiguity not
of the provocative
kind but
of the rudderless
kind indulged in by people making it up as they go along, forgetting what they've left in and what they've left at the side
of this endless slog.
The unlikely pair have evidently grown quite fond
of one another, say witnesses, one
of whom neatly summed - up the
budding bird
relationship: «It's
kind of a romance story, isn't it?