May We Borrow Your Husband? (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
MORTMAIN HOW wonderfully secure and peaceful a genuine marriage seemed to Carter, when he attained it at the age of forty-two. He even enjoyed every moment of the church service, except when he saw Josephine wiping away a tear as he conducted Julia down the aisle. It was typical of this new frank relationship that Josephine was there at all. He had no secrets from Julia; they had often talked together of his ten tormented years with Josephine, of her extravagant jealousy, of her well-timed hysterics. ‘It was her insecurity,’ Julia argued with understanding, and she was quite convinced that in a little while it would be possible to form a friendship with Josephine. ‘I doubt it, darling.’ ‘Why? I can’t help being fond of anyone who loved you.’ ‘It was a rather cruel love.’ ‘Perhaps at the end when she knew she was losing you, but, darling, there were happy years.’ ‘Yes.’ But he wanted to forget that he had ever loved anyone before Julia. Her generosity sometimes staggered him.
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