How much of the bedroom scene is fact and how much fancy must be left to the reader to decide, but it does give credence to Mary's very forward manner and her later "passionate" approach to shopping. Despite his gawky, angular, unlovely looks, she adored him-even when she had an affair with another to defuse some of her heat. She was in an almost constant state of trying to seduce him, usually without success. Lincoln, as portrayed by Janis Cooke Newman, was sexually repressed and feared Mary's passion. His opening line was "Miss Todd, I want to dance with you the worst way." Their relationship was odd, to say the least. Mary was born to southern slaveholders in Kentucky, moved to Illinois when she was 20 to live with her sister and met Abe at a cotillion. She makes a good case for herself, despite occasional manic behavior and often uncontrollable grief. According to these notes, although she held séances in the White House and drove her family deeply into debt because of compulsive shopping, she was perfectly sane.
She takes up her pen to block out the screams and moans of the other inmates and to save her own sanity. Mary is a novel written in the first person, comprised of notes composed by Mary Todd Lincoln when she was an inmate of a lunatic asylum.
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