@@@@@ But this didn't satisfy Stanley"I don't
@@@@@ But this didn't satisfy Stanley"I don't know, I guess it's just being stuck out here in the Pacific with nothing to doListen, you've got nothing to worry aboutYour wife loves you, doesn't she? Well, that's all you got to think aboutA decent woman who loves a man doesn't do anything she shouldn't doshe's got a kid," Stanley agreed"A mother wouldn't fool around His wife seemed very abstract to him at the momentHe thought of her as "she," as "x Still he was relieved by what Goldstein had said"She's young, but you know she made a good wife, she was seriouscute the way she took up responsibilities He chuckled, deciding instinctively to salve all the sore spots of his mind"You know we had a lot of trouble on our marriage nightOf course we worked it out later but things weren't so good that first night
"Oh, everybody has that problem
"Sure, Listen, I'll tell ya, all these guys who are always braggin', even a guy like Wilson here He lowered his voice"Listen, you can't tell me they didn't have the same troublesIt's always hard to get adjusted
He liked GoldsteinThe amalgam of the night, the rustling of the leaves in the wood, worked subtly on him, opening the door to all his uncertainties"Look," he said abruptly, "what do you think of me?" He was still young enough to make this question the climax of any confidential talk Goldstein always answered a question like this by telling people what they wanted to hearHe was not being consciously dishonest; he always generated warmth for the person who asked him even if he had never been a frien