That being said, the time in James Wormold’s life that Hawthorne approaches him is critical to his accepting of the espionage job and the remainder of the plot. Wormold is a divorced father who cares deeply about pleasing his sixteen-year-old daughter, Milly. He wants to keep her close to him, especially in this stage in her life, when men like Captain Segura are pursuing her. Wormold needs to spend a great fortune on Milly in order to do this. She says to him, “What about the Country Club? It’s the only place where I can get any real riding, and we aren’t members. What’s the good of a horse in a stable? Of course Captain Segura is a member, but I knew you wouldn’t want me to depend on him.” (Greene 40). Therein lies, Wormold’s sate. He has to spend great sums of money to keep Milly close to him and away from other men. This is what convinced him to take the job from Hawthorne and develop the rest of the
That being said, the time in James Wormold’s life that Hawthorne approaches him is critical to his accepting of the espionage job and the remainder of the plot. Wormold is a divorced father who cares deeply about pleasing his sixteen-year-old daughter, Milly. He wants to keep her close to him, especially in this stage in her life, when men like Captain Segura are pursuing her. Wormold needs to spend a great fortune on Milly in order to do this. She says to him, “What about the Country Club? It’s the only place where I can get any real riding, and we aren’t members. What’s the good of a horse in a stable? Of course Captain Segura is a member, but I knew you wouldn’t want me to depend on him.” (Greene 40). Therein lies, Wormold’s sate. He has to spend great sums of money to keep Milly close to him and away from other men. This is what convinced him to take the job from Hawthorne and develop the rest of the