A Deadly Affair Quotes

“When Charles was there, telling me how wonderful I was, how he loved me, what a perfect Elaine, what an exquisite creature I was, how he would spend his whole life making me happy, and so on, his hands trembling and his voice shaking - oh yes, I was charmed like a bird off a tree. And yet - yet, when he was gone away, when I thought of him in absence, there was nothing there. I did not yearn to see him again. I just felt he was - very nice. The alteration between the two moods puzzled me. How can you tell if you are in love with a person? If in absence they mean nothing to you, and in presence they sweep you off your feet, what is your real reaction?”
― Agatha Christie, A Deadly Affair