i once said before that the novels we have read so far is more about women suffrage in the world, but i think it more about the weakness a women has for a man, here we see sophie falling for man by the name of joseph twice her change, i think this give us a brief insight that something might be wrong with this crazy guy joseph for wanting such a young girl to be his wife, i believe joseph will end up bringing pain to sophie life, taking advantage of her, but sophist is scared to tell her mother about joseph, but to be honest i don’t believe martine will be mad at sophie because her mother said don’t pick up a guy that won’t do anything for you, you need someone that will help you and joseph being a older man, martine might see joseph as someone who can help sophie moving forward for the best