Chapter XVIII
Rudi
-We can’t go on like this- .
Fosco’s words were followed by silence. Rudi and Clara were sitting still around the tiny kitchen table. Rudi had come over early in the afternoon. After they got married, he moved in a small flat nearby and so that the house was all theirs.
For Clara had not been easy to adapt to her new life and also being alone in a city she did not know. Fosco would go out early in the morning and quite often he would come back home late. He was very busy at work and the riotously events of the last few days would keep him busy beyond his regular working hours.
In the evening, when he was with her, he seemed to forget all the worries. They would sit on the couch which was no longer used as a bed, he would hold her so tight to try and protect her fro
