Ok, so my suspicion was right, Mrs. Haze has been killed. But we'll get to that part later. Where we left off: as Humbert and Charlotte (Lolita's mom) prepare to get married, Charlotte begins redecorating the house, becoming more social, and acting extremely jealous. Humbert tries his best to make himself like her, because he knows it's the only way he will gain closeness with "his" Lolita. One thing that secretly upsets Humbert is Charlotte's obvious distaste for Lo. Charlotte thinks Lolita as nothing more than a conniving, naughty little girl, and wishes to send her off to boarding school. However, all these plans are cut short when, like I said earlier, Mrs. Haze is killed. Ok, you're probably wondering how and why this happened right?? Well, Mrs. Haze knew about a locked drawer in Humbert's study (in which he kept all his writings about Lolita), and she was dying to get into it, as she was a very jealous person. One day Humbert came home and she had broken into it to read all the creepy letters he had written. Humbert went to make a drink and decided to tell her it was all fiction, part of a book he was working on, but before he could he received a call saying that she had been run over by a car!
Clearly, Humbert didn't kill her, but it just worked out so nicely that as soon as Mrs. Haze found out, she was killed. And now, I can imagine Humbert must be incredibly happy because he will have Lolita all to himself. I feel so sorry for the poor girl because she doesn't even know what's going through his mind, or what he plans to do to her. And I certainly hope he doesn't hurt her.
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