114 wivesbehavingbadly

he smiled back , sympathetic and not unfriendly ." confession time . being married to a lloyd is rather exhausting . don't you think ?"
ahter the main bit of ceremony was over , and freda had shrieked in the approved manner , nathan trod back down the aisle . what it cost him . i dared not reckon . but that was the bargain i struck with my teras . he lid into the seat on my right and look my hand ." hi ," he said .
at the point of doing - for example , stealing a husnband who belongs to a woman you rather love ( but not enough ) - the exhilaration of the doing and taking is what matters . only afterward , during the cold , reflective nights , does the enormity of whaat had happened assume its true shape.
nathan stuck the photographs of frieda 's christening into the album covered with red leather that he had bought specially . hpotograph number one showed jilly , sam , and f4rieda in a lace gown that had serviced several generaltions of lloyds . frieda 's mouth had dropped open and there was  a milk blister on her upper lip . photograph number two feature nathna and rose .  dressed her favorite olive , a pround rose was holding froeda in an irrytatingly competent way , and frieda's tiny fingers curled round one of hers . but there was a clue to how she had been feeling for she had inclinened her head to the left ." left is my best profile ," she had told me onece . nathan had his arms by his isdes , but in a way that suggested he wished to put them around rose . photograph number three was the formal group one . in an old - fashioned haty , jilly posed with the baby in the center , and sam stood prtotectively beside her . nathan , rose , and jilly's parents , plus godparents , siblings , and cousins , fanned out from this nexus .
i was not in the photograph ....