• you should . . . make up your mind to disappointment Just at the point that we may have become overly preoccupied with Victor's own preoccupation
    with the image he cuts, we are brought back to the reality of why he is forced so
    carefully to hold up a mirror to his conduct. This stolid Swiss bureaucrat flattens
    four murders and the destruction of a prominent Genevan family into a matter of "disappointment"
    for Victor. It is little wonder that, after what he has suffered, he explodes in anger.