“Did you love him?” I wondered if he’d have had the boldness to ask me that if we were inside the palace. “I never did. All the time, on the Argo, I was glad that he was married. I was glad that he would go home to his wife at the end of it, that I knew there was an end.” I wondered if that made me sound coldhearted. “I thought he felt the same, but he said he would leave her. I told him no.”
