‘I’d never consider a divorce. She’d have a fit.’
‘Let her. You need to develop a backbone, if you’ll pardon my bluntness. Decide what it is that you want and put that first. If writing is your passion, be led by that. If she refuses to cooperate, and by the sound of things she will refuse, then you have no choice. You just need some courage, Richard.’
She didn’t expect him to answer. She wondered if she’d come across too strong. The older she got, the more forthright she became, and besides, she’d lived alone all her adult life and saw nothing wrong with it. A spinster, not that anyone used the term these days. She liked to think of herself as a fiercely independent woman. Too fierce for most men. She was adamant in her conviction that marriage was not the be all and end all to life, an
