And then when I seemed happy with you,
you would wonder if I was acting. I know all this sounds morbid
and exaggerated, but it isn't. What have you got to go on, as
regards me? What do you really know of me? If something like this
had happened after we had been married half a dozen years and
really knew each other, we could laugh at it. But we are
strangers. We came together and loved each other because there was
something in each of us which attracted the other. We took that
little something as a foundation and built on it. But what has
happened has knocked away our poor little foundation. That's all.
We don't really know anything at all about each other for certain.
It's just guesswork.'
She broke off and looked at the clock.
'I had better be packing if you're to catch the train.'
He gave a rueful laugh.
'You're throwing me out!'
'Yes, I am. I want you to go while I am strong enough to let you
go.'
'If you really feel like that, why send me away?'
'How do you know I really feel like that? How do you know that I
am not pretending to feel like that as part of a carefully-prepared
plan?'
He made an impatient gesture.
'Yes, I know,' she said. 'You think I am going out of my way to
manufacture unnecessary complications. I'm not; I'm simply looking
ahead.
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