"Because it was you who told me not to keep back. You told me not to
live alone. Don't you remember?"
He remembered. It was in the days when he first knew her.
"I did. Because you ran to the other extreme then. You were terrified of
life."
"Because I was a woman. You told me to be a woman!"
"Because I was the only man you knew. How you remember things."
"That comes of living alone. I've never really forgotten anything you
ever said to me. It's where I score."
"You had nobody but me to talk to then, if you remember."
"No. Nobody but you."
"And it wasn't enough for you."
"Oh, wasn't it? When you were never the same person for a week together.
It was like knowing fifteen or twenty men."