Nobody
need know that you are on a visit to your former wife, need they? We are
free to follow our own fancies, but there is no need to set people
gossiping.
Who knows whether the time may not come when I may take my revenge and
keep the promise I made you the last evening we spent together? When two
people have lived together as long as we have, separation is a mere
figure of speech. People do not separate after twenty-two years of
married life, even if each goes a different road for a time.
But why talk of the future. The present concerns us more nearly, and
interests me far more.
Come, then, dear friend, and I will give you such a welcome that you
will not regret the journey.
* * * * *
Joergen Malthe paid me a flying visit last week. Business brought him
into the neighbourhood, and he called unexpectedly and spent an hour
with me.
I must say he has altered, and not for the better.
I hope he will not wear himself out prematurely with all his work.
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