22/26 I only realise my full guilt now that I am punished. But whatever I can do in atonement--reparation, that I have made up my mind to do. The first--the chief thing--is that our married life is at an end." She heard him with a curious absence of surprise. Somehow, from the instant she had seen his dismantled room she had known, known surely, that the long fight between herself and Catherine was over. And that Catherine had won. |