Topic: The next morning, What were they thinking?

[manhattangirl]

tpe,

As always you go to the heart of what I'm trying to say.

[tpe]

Thanks manhattangirl.

I have learned to appreciate how Jack had handled the situation in that brief exchange with Ennis up the mountain.  At that point, Jack had set his heart into having Ennis -- all else seemed secondary.

[aintfoolin]

So true tpe, falling in love with Ennis was the easy part. Getting Ennis to reciprocate that love  equally proved to be the harder task. Though it took a while I think Jack evenvtually realized that Ennis did love him shown  more through actions  more than verbal. In SNIT it became crystal clear that Ennis felt deeply for Jack . More deep than he was ready to admit to himself.

[tpe]

So true tpe, falling in love with Ennis was the easy part. Getting Ennis to reciprocate that love  equally proved to be the harder task. Though it took a while I think Jack evenvtually realized that Ennis did love him shown  more through actions  more than verbal. In SNIT it became crystal clear that Ennis felt deeply for Jack . More deep than he was ready to admit to himself.

You hit the nail on the head, aintfoolin.  I do think Jack understood that Ennis loved him purely from his actions.  He became a master of it, I'm sure, even though the beginning was quite tricky, as witnessed by the morning after.

How could jack have doubted after the reunion kiss?  But that was 4 years later, and before that, perhaps he was unsure of how best to reciprocate.