Love Story
Mathew's face lit up.
'Oh, thank God!' So she arranged it for me! I asked Diana to do it for me, but she said it was best not to go alone—” He broke off abruptly. Now it was all clear. Clive had gone to his room… there was no point in continuing to pretend that everything was fine. “Look, don't be impressed with where I am, it's only temporary. It's just that I got sick, but I've got a lot of commissioned work...” He stopped again. The voice is gone. What was the use of lying? If Clive had gone to his room he had seen the worn-out material too, the miserable canvases he had used over and over again, piling one painting on top of the other until they were useless. So he humbly admitted the tr