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It was Friday, the day he always came, if (so she safeguarded it) he was / to come at all. They had left it that way in the beginning, that it / should be open to him to come or not to come. They had not even settled / that it should be Fridays, but it always was, the week-end being the / only time when he could get away; the only time, he had explained to / Agatha Verrall, when getting away excited no remark. He had to, or he / would have broken down. Agatha called it getting away "from things"; but / she knew that there was only one thing, his wife Bella.
To be wedded to a mass of furious and malignant nerves (which was all / that poor Bella was now) simply meant destruction to a man like Rodney / Lanyon. Rodney's own nerves were not as strong as they had been, after / ten years of Bella's. It had been understood for long enough (understood / even by Bella) that if he couldn't have his weekends he was done for; he / couldn't possibly have stood the torment and the strain of her.