He Kept Me on a $1,800 Allowance and Called Me a Kept Housewife. He Never Checked Who Held the Deciding Vote on the Company He Was Trying to Buy
He had never checked the trust.
He had been so certain I was nothing that he had never bothered to confirm it.
That, in the end, is the flaw that undid him, and it is worth pausing on, because it is a flaw I have since learned to recognize in a whole type of man.
Barrett did not fail because he was stupid.
He was, in the narrow ways his world measured such things, quite clever.
He failed because his contempt for me was so complete that it stopped functioning as an opinion and hardened into an assumption — a thing he no longer examined because he no longer imagined it could be wrong.
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