[ A smile, for the fact that By can read him so well. For the fact that he has stopped trying not to be read. Even though it leaves him having to say, after all: ]
That you know now. If you want to try again sometime. I don't know that I would, but you— [ another pause, before he compromises with that dreary concept of dutiful love ] —care about her.
She should have told you that first, instead of deciding she was done. Especially when she had been giving as good as she got five minutes before. But your conversations have usually been difficult, you said, and she was embarrassed,
[ with confidence in that fact, only not in whether her response can be attributed to it, ]
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Date: 2023-03-17 06:58 pm (UTC)That you know now. If you want to try again sometime. I don't know that I would, but you— [ another pause, before he compromises with that dreary concept of dutiful love ] —care about her.
She should have told you that first, instead of deciding she was done. Especially when she had been giving as good as she got five minutes before. But your conversations have usually been difficult, you said, and she was embarrassed,
[ with confidence in that fact, only not in whether her response can be attributed to it, ]
so—I don't know.