Chapter 61

“In this life,” she was serious now, “we have not known each other at all. We have lived our whole lives separately. I have loved you, you have liked me very much. But we have been just strangers who kissed. . . . I have thought, sometimes, that there are a great many like us--men and women who may be very deeply in love, but are strangers, really. . . . I’m growing metaphysical and someone advised me against that once a long time ago. Let’s go to dinner.” When he had ordered dinner, he said, “But we are going to h…