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By now, Pauline was hopelessly in love with Ernest, and she was determined to win him.
Hadley, meanwhile, was slipping into passivity.
She and Ernest had been separated many times before, but this time, she sensed, was different.
but by the time Ernest returned to Schruns in March, he and Pauline were lovers.
apartment.” No doubt, she also feared he’d be spending time with Pauline.
Through it all, Ernest was secretly seeing Pauline.
Fifty years after her divorce, Hadley told Alice Sokoloff that as soon as she found out about the affair, she knew she’d “lost the battle,” that Ernest would leave her.
For her part, Pauline was biding her time until Ernest was ready to leave Hadley.
Apparently, Sara thought Hadley should have ignored the affair in the hope that it would simply go away.
As Pauline grew bolder, Hadley slipped further into passivity.
book. “Pauline, then, provides the evil that undermines his ‘Eden,’ her ghost is both Eve and serpent.”
a letter from Pauline addressed to “Little Ones.” Still posing as a friend of both Hadley’s and Ernest’s, she nevertheless did not try to hide her desperation.
By this time, Hadley and Ernest were quarreling constantly,
As soon as they arrived at Villa America, they told the Murphys that they were splitting up.
I had hated these rich because they had backed me and encouraged me when I was doing wrong.
him. She never went back to the sawmill again.
For the rest of her long life, she would see him just once again.
Hadley hadn’t seen him in eight years, and he was greatly changed.
His marriage to Pauline had ended bitterly, and he was fighting with her over the terms of their divorce settlement.
where, for a time, Miró’s Farm hung over the sideboard.
He’d fallen in love with Martha Gellhorn,
whose father had once been Hadley’s gynecologist.
