In the long ago, it meant I did not make the first phone call.
Today the fingers stop from sending the first e-mail or initiating contact on social media.
But that, I knew, was his job.
Flora Westbrook
Instead he married someone else and didnt return home for nearly 20 years.
She devoted the rest of her life to preservingand protectinghis literary reputation.
She began collecting, annotating and publishing the poets letters.
They exchanged a few letters, on a purely friendly basis, while he was up at Oxford.
But for the time being, I was stuck with it.
And so she is surprised by his declaration of love (if indeed he made one).
She reaches for the doorknob but then hears the voice of her aunt.
And certainly not out in front of the neighbors.
No matter how old we are, it is often hard for women to shake those voices.
