CHAPTER 54
Thus, another year passed. I obviously didn’t achieve Peter’s popularity, partly because I was working in a completely different setting, but I was becoming a well-known person. If, on one side my skills were finally recognized, on the other, it complicated our situation.
I could never be there at Peter’s public presentations; I couldn’t attend to share in his successes. And he couldn’t publicly attend mine. Geoff was always at my side, even though we had almost become strangers. He accepted everything, as always. But he wouldn’t let me go, now less than ever. Even the initial outbursts had diminished and then ceased altogether.
I was now almost certain that he too had another life outside our domestic walls. But he was better than me at enduring the situation. In any case, d
