If he was surprised, he didn’t show it. He smiled slightly, “Of course you do, Mrs. Ryan. The past is past. Your husband is dead. He was never really the right husband for you, was he?”
She straightened up and stepped back. “Yes, he was and I loved him as deeply as a woman can love a man. That will never change. But you are right about the past. It’s gone. As a young girl when I was falling in love with Jeff there was this other thing, something I didn’t quite understand and never spoke of.”
Ruben nodded, “And this other thing as you call it? What might that have been?”
“I think you know. When I was a teenager and you caught my eye, you saw it. When I was a college student and later, a new wife we would sometimes pass each other on the street or be in a restaurant at the same time, and
