[The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great Impersonation CHAPTER XXVI 3/31
I can see the things in the pictures, and feel the thrill of the music, which seemed to come to me, somehow, before, all dislocated and discordant. You understand, dear ?" "Of course," he answered gravely. "I do not wonder," she went on, "that Doctor Harrison is proud of me for a patient, but there are many times when I feel a dull pain in my heart, because I know that, whatever he or anybody else might say, I am not quite cured." "Rosamund dear," he protested. "Ah, but don't interrupt," she insisted, depositing his share of the peach upon his plate.
"How can I be cured when all the time there is the problem of you, the problem which I am just as far off solving as ever I was? Often I find myself comparing you with the Everard whom I married." "Do I fail so often to come up to his standard ?" he asked. "You never fail," she answered, looking at him with brimming eyes. "Of course, he was very much more affectionate," she went on, after a moment's pause.
"His kisses were not like yours.
And he was far fonder of having me with him.
Then, on the other hand, often when I wanted him he was not there, he did wild things, mad things; he seemed to forget me altogether.
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