2. Remorseful
Every day she washes his clothes, prepares his food, gets rid of the evidence for him. Every day he lets her, too consumed by thoughts of revenge to spare a second for her.
She does not complain. Knows, deep down, that this is all she can expect of him, hope for. Benjamin Barker could love. Barker could show emotions other than rage, let everything out in ways not associated with blood.
But Barker is dead, and Sweeney Todd is nothing like the man she'd once loved.
She sometimes wonders why she loves Mr. Todd more.
Humming quietly to herself, she enters the tonsorial parlour and clears her throat. No response. As expected. Placing the tray down, she says loudly, "Anythin' else you need, Mr. T?"
Slowly, he shakes his head, gaze never moving from the view of Fleet Street below. He will not eat the dinner she has so lovingly prepared for him. He will not acknowledge her presence. He is too lost in the past, drowning in his tortured memories.
She leaves him then, trapped in the dark place he cannot escape.
For the first time in seventeen years, Mrs. Lovett guiltily wishes she'd never fallen so hard for Benjamin Barker.
But only for a guilty moment.