Night Without Stars
“Of course there was no future in it; but I wasn’t going to be put off by that. Each time we met there seemed to be something new to do or to talk about. Even my eyesight didn’t depress me the way it had.
She never mentioned her husband, and neither did I. Sometimes, by her movements and arrangements, he seemed to be in the background; other times one hardly believed in his existence. When she spoke about the past it was usually about her childhood. Her father had been a country doctor near ...Dijon. She had gone to a convent in Paris until she was sixteen, and then on the fall of France had come to live with an aunt in Nice. Father and aunt were both dead.
I knew she went on seeing Pierre Grognard about as often as she came out with me—and though I didn’t much like it there was nothing I could do about it. Her life was her own, and I certainly had no claims I could decently put up.
I used to think of Rachel sometimes and try to compare Alix with her.MoreLess
She never mentioned her husband, and neither did I. Sometimes, by her movements and arrangements, he seemed to be in the background; other times one hardly believed in his existence. When she spoke about the past it was usually about her childhood. Her father had been a country doctor near ...Dijon. She had gone to a convent in Paris until she was sixteen, and then on the fall of France had come to live with an aunt in Nice. Father and aunt were both dead.
I knew she went on seeing Pierre Grognard about as often as she came out with me—and though I didn’t much like it there was nothing I could do about it. Her life was her own, and I certainly had no claims I could decently put up.
I used to think of Rachel sometimes and try to compare Alix with her.MoreLess
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