“Barry! Are you disgusted?”
“Why, it seems so impossible——”
“To love me?”
“No!—that you—you ever have been married!”
“I haven’t been—entirely.... Only legally ... and partly.”
He thought: “My God, there seems to be something the matter with everybody and everything.” And to Eris: “Why didn’t you ever tell me?”
“It was none of your business until I fell in love with you, was it?”
He caught her in his arms, roughly: “It’s my business now. Do you understand? I’ll never give you up.... Look at me, Eris!”
He was hurting her; and she smiled and endured her bruises, breast and lips and limb.