Cal was sitting on the deck of his cabin, alone. Ruth, for what Cal knew was with Rose, Lovejoy was—in his own cabin, for what Cal knew and Ismay and Andrews were busy—elsewhere, so Cal was alone, alone with his thoughts, and lonely. It was almost five at night and Rose had been gone all day long, Cal hasn't seen her since early that morning, he missed her, he wanted to spend time with her, talk with her, laugh with her, but it seemed, since the day he told her about his dream, he hardly ever saw her anymore and then when he did, they were always doing what SHE wanted to do. Cal was becoming frustrated and very unhappy. It was almost as if he and Rose had switched roles and that now he was the unhappy one—and in a few seconds, he was about to get some very unhappy news. Lovejoy stormed into Cal's room and onto the deck, looking frantically at Cal.
"Sir, do you KNOW where Ms. Rose is?" Lovejoy asked, in a frantic tone.
Cal looked up at Lovejoy with an eyebrow raised.
"With Ruth, why, Lovejoy?" Cal asked.
Lovejoy scoffed and rolled his eyes with an angry expression.
"She is NOT with Ms. Ruth, Mr. Hockley!" Lovejoy said in a louder, angry expression. "I've been following her and Mr. Jack Dawson for hours."
Cal looked at Lovejoy with an angry expression.
"WHAT?" Cal asked as he quickly stood up in his chair.
Lovejoy nodded seriously.
"Yes, Mr. Hockley," Lovejoy continued, "they were dancing, drinking and laughing together in third class and then they ran off to some third class room, went in and—they didn't come out until TWO hours later, and so you KNOW what that means."
Cal looked at Lovejoy with complete hurt. He looked down and frowned deeply. Of course he knew what that meant. Someone doesn't spend two hours in a room with a man unless they were in the room having sex with each other.
"When they came out the room, they looked—different in appearance, so-" Cal cut Lovejoy off and sighed with a shake of his head.
"Stop, I know the rest." Cal said with a voice that was cracking with tears.
"Something else, Mr. Hockley." Lovejoy said. "It appears we've hit something—the ship—I overheard Mr. Andrews and the captain talking—it was an iceberg, I heard something about flooding."
Cal looked at Lovejoy with shocked and hurt eyes. He closed his eyes tight, briefly. Everything was falling down horribly, all around him and worst of Rose had lied to him that morning. She wasn't going to give him another chance. She was cheating on him with Jack and she didn't want to be with Cal, no matter what he said or how much he changed. Everything about his dream was coming true, Rose cheating on him with Jack, the ship hitting an iceberg, it was all horrifically coming true-especially the part about Rose cheating on him with Jack. She was actually going to LEAVE him for Jack, just like the dream prophesied. This enraged Cal, but most of all, it hurt him DEEPLY, and that hurt would surely bring out the OLD Cal, the controlling, abusive, VIOLENT Caledon Hockley….