“And I suddenly felt a shiver of fear—if Anton could not tell even Eline why he had been there, then wasn’t that because of Miriam? Wasn’t that because, despite the assaults he himself forced upon it, there was nonetheless something sacrosanct in the idea of his marriage, some illusion he could not bear to break, however divorced it might be from the reality that was in this restaurant now?”
Book:Intimacies