Kindle Notes & Highlights
There had been lovers over the years, of course, but nobody who’d lasted more than a few months and nobody whose departure left her saddened. Maybe, she was one of those women who was destined to remain single.
‘She was fired?’ ‘Yes. The board of governors said they’d lost confidence in her. They told her that even if the allegations were disproved, people would always wonder, and there would be those who would maintain that there was no smoke without fire. I think,’ Imelda said, her voice thick with tears, ‘that it was the even if that finished her. She told me later that her heart had ripped in two when she heard the doubt in their voices.’ Melanie stared at Imelda without blinking. ‘So, she killed herself.’
