Rebecca West and H. G. Wells were completely wrong for each other, they were completely right; she saw he wouldn’t leave his wife, he saw she needed a wife; they jarred each other and annoyed each other from the beginning and from the beginning they were inextricably physically attracted to each other. He thought love was just common sense, she thought it was a way of losing it, he was for sex without love, she was for the whole damn business.
