The Moon and Sixpence

," he said, the moment we

der to discuss once more what he had been alre

u know," he said. "All we know is t

they got

never had a quarrel in the whole of their married life. Y

e thrust on me, I saw no ha

n to say she su

ayed golf with him. He came back to town in September to let his partner go away, and Amy stayed on in the country. They'd taken a house for six weeks, and at the en

anation di

lanation. I've seen the letter.

's extrao

d that Mrs. Strickland, for reasons of her own, had concealed from him some part of the facts. It was clear that a man after seventeen years of wedlock did

at he'd gone off with a woman. I suppose he thought she coul

. Strickland

to get our proofs. I'm g

about his

rtful. He's been drawing in

his partner h

a w

nd under what conditions Strickland had left his affairs. I gathered that the deserted partner was very angry and thre

the flat is in Amy's name. Sh

hen you said she w

ot two or three hundred p

s she goin

kno

onfused rather than informed me. I was glad that, catching sight of the clock at the Army and Navy Stor