Important Lines

Question 1

That would only add to the humiliation

Answer 1

I understand. On the other hand you could not bother asking her and we could just forget about the whole thing.

Question 2

Well you think it’s pretty clear but I don’t. What is she takes the question to mean always as in have I always been Faithful; she might think back to the past before me and say no.

Answer 2

Well aren’t you curious about that.

Question 3

I’m not unscrupulous like you Max. I didn’t put her under hypnosis to delve into her past

Answer 3

Alright put it to her like this. “Hilda, since we’ve been together have you been faithful.

Question 4

No but it’s syntactically problematic. Suppose she thinks back to the first few days of our affair, when she wasn’t quite over whoever it was,she was getting over supposing she was getting over someone. And I was just the rebound option.

Answer 4

Go on

Question 5

She would have been in love for weeks, months before she finally got over him. This man who cruelly and unfairly rejected her, the bastard.

Answer 5

That happened?

Question 6

How should I know it could have.

Answer 6

Hm

Question 7

Or say she was in love with me, but was still with this guy—

Answer 7

Which guy?