I don't deny it was
a shock and that it'll always be a hurt inside of me I'll never get
over. But it was my fault; I didn't understand a woman's nature."
Poor Roscoe spoke in the most profound and desolate earnest. "A
woman craves society, and gaiety, and meeting attractive people, and
traveling. Well, I can't give her the other things, but I can give
her the traveling--real traveling, not just going to Atlantic City or
New Orleans, the way she has, two, three times. A woman has to have
something in her life besides a business man. And that's ALL I was.
I never understood till I heard her talking when she was so sick, and
I believe if you'd heard her then you wouldn't speak so hard-heartedly
about her; I believe you might have forgiven her like I have. That's
all. I never cared anything for any girl but her in my life, but
I was so busy with business I put it ahead of her. I never THOUGHT
about her, I was so busy thinking business. Well, this is where it's
brought us to--and now when you talk about 'business' to me I feel
the way you do when anybody talks about Gurney to you. The word
'business' makes me dizzy--it makes me honestly sick at the stomach.
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