A Man Could Stand Up— · Part I · Chapter 1 2 (3/3)

“Of course if it’s his wife who has removed his furniture that would be a reason for his wanting to get into communication. They would have split.⁠ ⁠… But he does not hold with a man divorcing a woman, and she won’t divorce.”

As she went through the sticky postern⁠—All that woodwork seemed sticky on account of its varnish!⁠—beside the great doors she said:

“Who cares!”

The great thing was⁠ ⁠… but she could not formulate what the great thing was. You had to settle the preliminaries.