For days I spoke to her only about household arrangements.

Finally she stood in my study and asked, “Grant, have I done something wrong?”

I said, “You have fulfilled everything this marriage asked of you.

You don’t owe me anything more.”

Her expression changed.

“Is that how you think of us?”

I told her I wanted her to have a real life, one she had chosen freely.

I said we could separate without resentment.