Aperto E Chiuso

Aperto E ChiusoIn the several years of their secret affair, Vivian, George Allenson's third wife, had had ample opportunity to observe how little, in relation to his second wife, he was to be trusted; but he had not expected her, once they were married, to perceive him as untrustworthy. He was 20 years older, also, and he had not imagined that this superiority in experience, and in the relaxed poise that proximity to death brings, might be regarded as a deficit—in eyesight, in reaction time, in...