It Ends With Revelations
“Could she even bring herself to try?
He said persuasively, ‘Come on, now. And remember I want to know all about you, as well as about your relationship with Miles. It’s an extraordinary feeling to be so much in love with a woman I know so little about. I’m like those people who say they know nothing about painting but know what they like – only I want to find out why I like.’ ‘Perhaps you’ll just find out that you like me less,’ – and remembering her past self she thought this very possible.... Well, that might be no bad thing; not that she wanted him to stop being attracted by her, merely to stop wanting to marry her. Anyway, she’d try to be completely honest. ‘I’d better begin with my despised girlhood,’ – despised, certainly, by her and if anyone had not despised it, that fact hadn’t come to her notice.
‘Go back further. What were you like as a child?’ ‘Horrible, I should think, and generally miserable.MoreLess
He said persuasively, ‘Come on, now. And remember I want to know all about you, as well as about your relationship with Miles. It’s an extraordinary feeling to be so much in love with a woman I know so little about. I’m like those people who say they know nothing about painting but know what they like – only I want to find out why I like.’ ‘Perhaps you’ll just find out that you like me less,’ – and remembering her past self she thought this very possible.... Well, that might be no bad thing; not that she wanted him to stop being attracted by her, merely to stop wanting to marry her. Anyway, she’d try to be completely honest. ‘I’d better begin with my despised girlhood,’ – despised, certainly, by her and if anyone had not despised it, that fact hadn’t come to her notice.
‘Go back further. What were you like as a child?’ ‘Horrible, I should think, and generally miserable.MoreLess
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