The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole

A letter from Falk to Joan.

Dear Joan -- Mother has been here. I could get nothing out of her. I had only one thing to say -- that she must go back to father. That was the one thing that she asserted, over and over again, that she never would. Joan, she was tragic. I felt that I had never seen her before, never known her. She was thinking of nothing but Morris. She seemed to see him all the time that she was in the room with me. She is going abroad with Morris at the end of this week -- to South America, I believe. Mother doesn't seem now to care what happens, except that she will not go back to father.