His determination was giving me new confidence. “She’s got to feel my full presence again, become dependent upon me and believe in me the way she used to.” “We’ve got to get her to challenge him and see what he truly is.” Whatever he says about us, she’s going to accept.” “This man is taking up all her time and energy now. “We must punish her, punish her for being unfaithful, and we must restore her faith in us.”

I drank my coffee and sat there thinking. “I’ve been trying not to hate her, but it’s hard.”

When I think of some of those long conversations we used to have when she was younger … it makes me mad. “I’d never think of Ursula being false to us.” You actually heard her say these things?” She tells me she talks to you, comes down to see you, spends time with you in your room, but she’s just been saying that to humor me and keep me believing she still cares about us. “I mean, lately, has she acted the same way she used to act with you?” Could she have felt this way for a long time? Has she been humoring us with her attention and concern? Tell the truth, did Ursula ever talk to you like I do?” She talks about you as if you … as if you didn’t really exist, had no mind. “Marry Ursula and get us committed somewhere.” He’s got her convinced that we’re sick, mentally sick. He probably figures on eventually taking things over around here. I know, I know, it’s hard to believe, but she did.” She told him some very private things about us. They talked about us both as if we were lunatics. Gave him information how he should react and behave in our presence.”

She told him about you, prepared him in a way. “Ursula and her soldier boy returned a little after one o’clock. “Then maybe you heard some of what went on in the living room last night, huh?” “I had the heating pads on all night,” he said. The joints of his knees always ached in the morning. Then we made some small talk for a while. I served him his coffee and poured myself another cup. I could see from the way he was staring at me that he realized something was very wrong, but he waited for a while. I helped him dress and wheeled him out to the kitchen. I smashed it into pieces by slamming it hard into the sink. After she left, I broke the dish she had eaten off. I was burning up inside, containing all the anger. He’s … well, he’s just a very sincere individual,” she said. I mean, considering all that he’s been through and all that’s happened to him.” I would imagine he would be the type to make you nervous. “When I’m with him, I feel very relaxed, very good.” “It could become serious,” she said, pausing and thinking for a moment. He just wants me to meet her and her to meet me.” And now he wants you to meet his mother before she kicks off.”

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