The curtain falls.
No, it was not at an end.
She visited me again in my room, and I drew from her a full confession, brutal in its candour.
In the first year of her marriage she knew nothing of the ecstasies of love. After her baby was born, her husband grew indifferent to her, and their relations became strained.
"Then you've never been happy with this man with the physique of a giant?"
"Never ... sometimes perhaps ... hardly ever."
"And now?"
She blushed.
"The doctor has advised him not to go on sinning against nature."