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she was thirteen. It must have been partly his fault and I've told him that if a man is affectionate towards a woman she will do anything for him. He's not an affectionate man.

G: I think that view is interesting. If a woman gets affection from a man she cares for she will do anything, including die for him.

B: There's no question. If a man has tenderness for a woman she will forgive him everything. It's the way nature made us. There is no use fighting it.

G: But it didn't work every time for you. You didn't forgive the men who were not true.

B: Let me see. With Roche, there was no bitterness, just grief. It was a moral shock. I was destroyed to think such a thing could happen. I said, "We can't go on!"

G: But you couldn't forgive him in your heart.

B: Probably not until I came up for air. I did after a few months, because we went on in a very beautiful friendship after. And at the end of his life, I visited him in France and he was very loving. (platonically).