A Different World (2014)
“He was too honourable to do anything else. But she also knew he was going back into danger. The Soviet Union had installed puppet governments in the whole of Eastern Europe and made a kind of fortress of it. Churchill in a speech in America had said, ‘From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.’ Jan was voluntarily going behind that iron curtain to an uncertain future, so he must love his Rulka very much. It was all very well to be practical and try to do what was right, but it was hard to subdue the feeling of jealousy that it roused in her.‘If I can, I’ll let you know I’ve arrived safely,’ he said on his last visit to the Pheasant. ‘I’ll write to you too, just to keep in touch.’‘No, Jan, don’t do that. You have to make a life with your wife, you can’t hang on to the life you had here with me.’ He could not have known the effort it took to say that when all she wanted was to keep him with her. A clean break was the only w...ay she was going to be able to cope.MoreLess
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