And yet you were just recently married, and then abruptly not.

Were you looking forward to being doted on by that pretty thing? Having children surround you and call you "Papa?"

Rod's wants and desires have always been singularly contradictory. He didn't want a doting, gentle wife to grow flowers in the aboretum, but he didn't want a wife who hadn't the patience for massaging his pride, either.

The sooner I can handle him as another associate and not a husband, the better.