I know that if I took Marc to the court it would be unforgivable and yet I knew I would never face the alternative solution of seeing Tio only occasionally, perhaps never. I was reluctantly forced to the conclusion that the only way out of the difficulty was to disappear out of Marc's life for good. How I will accomplish what I was thinking was a big question.

I sighed bitterly as I reflected that with a more reasonable man, it would have been sufficient to have discussed the facts and the lawyer would have put them to her. But as the lawyer had summarized Marc was a very determined...