BREAKING POINT
Jeremy replied.
Penny left the room —disturbed—happy —and unhappy. She broke eggs into the frying pan. Something which she could not quite fathom was disturbing her. It wasn't altogether Jeremy's remark about 'the other women'. It wasn't that she loved him less, because she had known when he kissed her a few minutes ago that he was hers, all hers, and that she was drawn to him in such a way that resistance was impossible. It was.... Just the feeling that something was wrong. Not Jeremy. Nothing was wrong with Jeremy. It was herself, a little niggling inner fear, the old doubt that could not be expressed. Perhaps a feeling of guilt, too. Almost as though she had been unfaithful to Howard —whi