In Response to http://nathanaelgracelovesliterature.blogspot.com/2012/02/stormy.html

     I really like what you said in the first paragraph of your blog, "The ending is surprising because it not only rejects the need for consequences for adultery, but it goes so far as to provide a happy ending for everyone involved." I do have to agree with you on that point. I find it interesting that after this affair Calixta  seems almost temporarily released from her former self. Almost as if cleansed if that makes any sense. Even though what she did seems to have made her very unclean. 
    I want to know why she doesn't confess, or does she even feel like she has to? I also feel terribly sorry for Bobinot  who has received the bitter end of his wife. Then comes home after traveling in the storm preparing himself for his Calixta and her wrath, if you so chose to classify it as wrath. And comes home to a happy wife. Imagine Bobinot's response if he had learned that his wife's infidelity is the reason for her new found happiness. How distraught would he be knowing that the happiness his wife is experiencing was all thanks to Alcee? It's terrible watching Bobinot go on in innocence feeling happy and at peace with his wife when in all actuality those feelings are not deserved? Perhaps that is not the right wording? Which makes me wonder what is love, actually?