The one I started when I first met Archie, and continued through all the happy years of our romance, and through the terrible years when everything fell apart. Right up to the moment that Archie discovered it, discovered my betrayal of him, and sent me away. Somebody seems to have removed it from Archie’s desk and hidden it at the back of Winnie’s bookshelf, and that ‘someone’ can only be Winnie herself. That means she must have read it. I blush at the thought. Then Winnie knows! To her credit, she has never spoken a word of the matter to me. What a shock it must have been. But she has always been fond of Jim, so I expect she accepted it eventually. She must have wondered at least a little, though, about my presence here at Promised Land. She must have wondered whether, since my return, Jim and I Well, we haven’t. That part of our lives is over. It was wild and passionate and necessary while it lasted – we both buried our troubles in the illusion of a Great Love – but that is decidedly over.
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