![]() ![]() At first I was worried, but one of the others said she saw you in a shop, looking quite fine.” You were there with me at the museum, and then one day you were gone. “I assume you did what you needed, that you had your reasons.” She glanced at the teacher, who had moved to comfort the child, then went on, “But it’s true I was hurt then. “Nothing? What do you mean? What kind of friend does that?” ![]() “Don’t be silly, you have nothing to apologize for.” The emotion was intensely true, but I wasn’t able to communicate it in the way I was experiencing it. It was wrong of me not to tell you I was going away.” Though I sounded almost completely phony when I said this, it was not how I felt. “Antoinette, I’m very sorry I never said goodbye. ![]() Whether I loved my husband was of no interest I wanted to change the subject. “And you, do you love your husband?” Antoinette asked, in the midst of all this. “And the two-humped camel?” a child yelled out. “The one-humped camel is from the Middle East and the Horn of Africa,” she said in a high voice. ![]()
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