Yes! I read the last part so fast, in a hurry to get to the denouement, that I'd forgotten that, but yes. That overwhelming tiredness.
I bet that if Irene could look her attraction to Clare right in the face, she'd discover that she could experience the acme of suffering and of love right then and there. But she can't, or won't let herself, which comes to the same thing in the end.
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Date: 2021-11-16 11:50 pm (UTC)I bet that if Irene could look her attraction to Clare right in the face, she'd discover that she could experience the acme of suffering and of love right then and there. But she can't, or won't let herself, which comes to the same thing in the end.