Cæsar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts

by W. Somerset Maugham

Anne.

I have.

Arthur.

I always look upon you as so calm and self-controlled.

Anne.

I was desperately in love for years with a man. I should have made him an excellent wife, although it's I as says it. But it never occurred to him for an instant that my feelings were more than friendly. And eventually he married somebody else.

Arthur.

My dear friend, I hate to think of your being unhappy.

Anne.

I'm not. That's why I told you the tragic story. I've got over it so completely that now I have an equal affection both for him and his wife.