When you say about samantha's cheating to francis the protagonist say's in mind "any open confrontation with the blury tavern owner wouldn't be in francis' best interests". Does this leads to derrick being a bully bull in francis-samantha relationship. One thing that we all avoid is the narrations about francis-samantha relationship, burla say's francis isn't enough to satisfy the high sex drive of samantha but on a diffrent ocassion you can hear ''rumor has it that the marriage dosen't do much for either francis or his wife samantha''. Does this means francis also needs some fun in life but samantha isn't giving it or the opposite.
but after all these you can't find them in the woods does this leads to point where francis talked about this to samantha