Bernard Makes the Connection (Brave New World: 10)

"Linda had come from the Other Place long ago, before he was born, with a man who was his father. (Bernard pricked up his ears.) She had gone walking alone in those mountains over there to the North, had fallen down a steep place and hurt her head. ('Go on, go on,' said Bernard excitedly.)"
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The literary term suspense is used in this quote, and in this whole paragraph. The reader has a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next. The reader is having the same thoughts as Bernard at this point. We knew the anecdote that the Director had told earlier about how he had lost a girl he was having when he was visiting the Reservation. John, the Indian boy telling the story and son of the lady, said that some hunters had found her and brought her to the Reservation where she has lived since. The reader and Bernard are making the connection that Linda, this lady, is in fact the woman the Director had had relations with, and conceived a son. The suspense builds within the reader to know more about what really happened, and how the Director and this woman have had a child together. Also, there is suspense in wanting to know what Bernard is going to do with this new found information. He is the only one to know the Director's secret, so I am wondering if Bernard might black mail him.