Chapter 33

She could not think of anything to say. She thought, “I must not scream. I must not clutch at him. I would scream, I would clutch at him, if it would keep him. But not even that would keep him. He is going now, in a minute. I did not believe, really, until now, that he would go without me. Two hours ago we were joined, we were close as it is possible for a man and a woman to be. He did not want to go on to his life, to his career, to such other women as he may find, two hours ago. Or it did not seem then, that he w…