"I like the way in which she accepted our relationship. Only with a person so eminently sensible could I have deceived my wife."
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"'I don't want to know,' said Georgie. 'I don't want to know what you do when you're not with me. It's better not to feed the imagination. I prefer to think that when you aren't here you don't exist.'"
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"There was a desperate fierceness in her manner, but there was also fear, fear of my reactions. It was the fear which began to convince me and I felt the first touch of nightmarish terror."
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"In the creamy white smock, self-consciously old-fashioned, my brother seemed dressed to represent a miller in an opera."
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"Last night, strangely enough, I had not felt too dejected; but this, I reasoned out, was because of a particular illusion, which had been fostered by the...