End of the affair----Excerpts

Unlike the rest of us she was unhaunted by guilt. In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse dies with the act. She would have thought it unreasonable of Henry, if he had caught us, to be angry for more than a moment.  

Sarah and I used to have long araguments on jealousy. I was jealous even of the past, of which she spke to me frankly as it came up - the affairs that meant nothing at all (except possibl;y the unconsious desire to find that final spasm Henry had so woefully failed to evoke). She was as loyal to her lovers as she was to Henry, but waht should have provided me with some comfort (for she would be undoubtedly she would be loyal to me too) angered me. There was a time when she would laugh at my anger, simply refusing to believe in her own beauty, and I would be just as angry because she refused to be jealous of my past or my possible future.