Anna"s candour stunned Nathan.
“My trouble was I could see an erection in a man"s eye, but I never let it go beyond that. I really was a bit of a rotter. I never let anyone look at me the way you look at Dorothy in that photograph.” Anna held up her hand. “Don"t stop me now, Nathan, let me finish. I never saw anyone the way that Dorothy saw you. I"ve seen the photograph and the way you looked at her; you can"t deny it.”
“You"re right. It"s true, but what the Hell: I can"t do anything now. It"s over.”
“I know, Nathan, but in time you"ll meet a nice Canadian girl. Don"t play the fool with her, and make yourself unhappy.”
Anna told Nathan that when she first met Dan she"d been by turns warm and then hard with him, but slowly he wooed her and stripped away her brash, flinty public face. Sh
