Nippon's Wife and Slave Trade

Nippon's Wife and Slave Trade

Did he love his wife? Dr. Sterling was pondering, or had he been bored with her? There he sat a few feet away, why not ask him? He had or gave the appearance he did get bored with her, and she was a faithful wife so he had learned, 'But I bet that he never really, and truly never loved her. So what?' Thought the psychologist, talking to himself. 'He had made his life out of complications and drama, and boredom, yet filled his human commitments, so he did not hurry for the funerals, that's the answer.' The psychologist feared to say this out loud lest he give him an excuse to deny it. He did admit to the psychologist, on his wedding day he was simply less bored. Now with the deaths, the return of silence and the evening's mildness had come back, that he had before his marriage, this too he admitted was a plus. This was the way Nippon thought. He knew he was hardhearted, not usable by God, as he proclaimed, for God demands an open heart, but more often than not, openhearted people were in a class of their own, in a governing...