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She must have been planning her departure for some time, Stoner realized; and he was grateful thar he had not known and that she left him no final note to say what could not be said.

even Grace, or the certainty of losing Grace, that keeps me here; it isn't the scandal or the hurt to you or me; it isn't the hardship we would have to go through, or even the loss of love we might have to face. It's simply the destruction of ourselves, of what we do?

On their last morning Katherine straightened the furniture and cleaned the place with slow care. She took off the wedding band she had worn and wedged it in a crevice between the wall and the fireplace. She smiled self-consciously. 'I wanted, she said, 'to leave something of our own here; something I knew would stay here, as long as this place stays. Maybe it's silly?
Stoner could not answer her.