The First Wife's Digni...ty? (2)

“Looks like you really do have a fever….”

Gilliam took his hand away.

“What do you want to do? Should we eat here, then go back and rest?”

Go back and rest?

‘…No matter how I look at it, if a man and woman are going to rest together, it means that, right?’

What a ridiculous man.

To go straight from asking if she had a fever to steering the conversation there.

‘He’s so practiced it’s annoying.’

And that attitude of his, as though he were leaving the choice up to her.

‘…Even though he’s been sleeping with Maron and Lucy nonstop.’...