They didn't realize what was really happening. Edie does not realize that Chris is a man who is with one girl after another and who “cannot settle into ordinary life” (Munro 133). She believed that he would return for her who was his beloved after the kiss she had with him. Edie does not see that Alice Kelling is running after Chris that "Edie, herself, becomes the next victim and castaway" (Tudor 130). When Alice Kelling and Mrs. Peebles accuse Edie of having an affair with Chris, the naive Edie believes that having an affair means kissing which would lead to having a baby. You can see how naive Edie was in not seeing that Chris won't be back for her after one