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‘I’ve become accustomed to peace and quiet’

‘I’ll make sure not to play my trumpet too loudly You’ll thank me when this baby is delivered fat and healthy’

And then? she thought What happens then? She would have beco him around She knew that because she was already accusto with her

‘And shall Ier? Well, I feel I ought to ask thiswhat about sleeping arrangements?’ she asked in a rush

They found themselves in the kitchen and she sank into a chair and looked at him

‘What about them?’

Just like that his ness of her sto—the essence of the rounded, fertile woman His woman

Except she wasn’t, was she?

Currently she was a wo to have a conversation about the boundaries she could put into place to spare herself the discohtened, but he wasn’t going to get involved in a roith her Stress ca to stress her by arguing with her—especially not now

Marriage was no longer a subject under discussion It had been efficiently and silently removed froinning? Left her with no wriggle rooot married he would have been able to keep an eye on herthey wouldn’t have ended up racing to the hospital in a state of flat-out panic

But a reluctant, bitter and resentful wife? No, the answer did not lie there