He had been at first so gay an activity,and then he was shattered; fragments of him were still as gay andattractive as ever, but between were outbreaks of anger, of hostility,of something very like malignity. Only very slowly did they realise thetruth of their relationship and admit to themselves that the fine budof love between them had failed to flower, and only after long yearswere they able to delimit boundaries where they had imagined union, andto become--allies.
In a littlewhile the muddled... read more
