She had always told me she loved me but had also always told me she couldn’t foresee a future together and she was intelligent and honest enough with herself to recognize that I was at that time incapable of giving her the kind of life she craved. I realized later she was right in believing this; she wanted to marry, settle down, have children; I was still in the process of building my career and of course ‘in films there is no guarantee of regular work’. She believed love could not withstand an empty stomach, I believed it could withstand anything.
