The Physic Garden (2014)
“Was I so very foolish, so unseeing? Was there even the smallest hint of what was to follow? But I can find none. She was always her ordinary loving self with me. She gave me not a single hint of the storm that must have been taking place in her head and in her heart. Afterwards I found myself wondering, are all women like this? Can all women dissemble so completely, when there is something quite different going on behind their eyes? To believe that, of course, would be to call into question eve...ry single friendship, every courtship, every marriage. How could you ever trust a lassie again? Well, I did find myself thinking like that for a time, until I brought myself up short with the realisation that you must trust somebody or life itself would become unbearable. But from time to time, I still find myself considering the conundrum, albeit with feelings less sharp, less painful than I once endured.
Are lassies so used to disguising their true feelings, brought up as they are from birth to be pleasing to everyone except themselves, to accede to all demands, to consider themselves so much less than the menfolk in their lives?MoreLess
Are lassies so used to disguising their true feelings, brought up as they are from birth to be pleasing to everyone except themselves, to accede to all demands, to consider themselves so much less than the menfolk in their lives?MoreLess
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