"Wise Jane Judd," he smiled. "I have had a long journey with Fate. For twenty years I have been paying for youthful folly. Do you know about me, Jane?"
"Jerry told me that you are married, that your wife lives."
"She has moved from one sanatorium to another for twenty years, Jane."
"How dreadful, my friend."
"I go to see her when I can. I have been with her this summer. It is like visiting some little girl I knew when I was a lad.... I wanted you to know."
"Does she suffer?"
"Apparently not. She just is, that's all. No past, no future."
"But your past, your future, Martin?"
"I can have none," he said steadily.
"Did you love her very much?"