"Oh, why?"
"Because then you wouldn't have been there. I knew you were trying to keep it all together. But it was bound to go. It couldn't have lasted. She'd have gone anyhow. You don't worry about that now, do you?"
"Sometimes I can't help thinking of it."
"Don't think of it."
"I won't so long as you know what I did it for."
He meditated.
"I know what you did it for in the beginning. But—Winks—you were there afterward."
"Afterward—?"
"After Virelet went you were doing things."
"Well—and didn't you want me?"