Valeria Post Two

Curiosity got the better of Lanyon. He simply couldn’t refuse the offer that the situation and Mr. Hyde presented. Of course, in the end, the choice did him no good, for he ended up neither wiser not richer, just more pale and very much terrified. However, he knew not what would happen to him. Would he have chosen the same path if he knew that he would die from it? Probably not. However, there were many warnings along the way that foreshadowed this development, and the doctor just chose to ignore them. The mysterious letter, the tough lock, the odd contents of the drawer, the nature of the visitor, and the “enigma” of the choice all told the same story. If it were me, I would not have let him stay a second longer. But if “A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity,” as one proverb states, then Lanyon lived a good life, no?