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 : It’s natural you should feel bitterly about it.

Isn’t it true? Wasn’t his behaviour a lesson in good manners and consideration for my feelings a stranger’s feelings?



That’s what it is. Charity! I feel I’m living in this house on charity his charity. In my own house! His wife and he doesn’t even like me. He hates me. I can see it in his eyes, behind all his politeness.



You said yesterday, Frank, that when you spoke to him of me in the hospital  he was  hostile. What did he say exactly?













I described you to him, told him that you were small and dark and beautiful, and mentioned that you had a lovely