Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton

Author:Alan Paton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

YES, THAT was the letter he wrote to her, the letter she showed me after we had been destroyed. For then and then only did she understand. Strange it is, that to me who would have given half my life to have had such a letter from a man, no such thing was given; and the one to whom it was given, did not want it or understand it, and wished it never written. For this is what she wrote, amongst other things.

The long part of your letter I cannot answer fully now, but we shall talk about it when I get home. But even if I hurt you, I must tell you that it hurts me that you think my love is not complete and sure, and that I do not accept the kind of love you write about. Or do you think that Frikkie and Grieta came straight from heaven? Yet it seems to me that a woman’s nature is different from a man’s, and that for a happy marriage each must give up something, which I try to do. As for these dangers, I think you imagine them, and they are not there at all; for sometimes I think I know you better than you know yourself. But do not worry; three weeks will soon go and I’ll be home. I think about you too, every day, and when I go to sleep at night; and though I have the children that is not quite the same. I have given them your kisses and tonight in the bath I shall …

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