Just as quickly as it had been born inside me the happiness was vanquished by a perilous notion, a gut-wrenching feeling, a gruesome suspicion. Within a moment's time I raced back to the bed where my wife lay sobbing and grabbed hold of her wrist, having thought the matter over and concluding that I could not trust the two of them alone. Who knows what they may get up to? The risk was incalculable. All that I had worked for, the myriad successes I had accrued in my years, it could all be lost by this one careless action. Troubled further by the thought that the incessant, relentless debacle had grown quite tiresome to all concerned I dragged Appolonia kicking and screaming back to our bedroom, then changed my mind at the precipice, deciding it would be better for her to sleep on the sofa,
