The Moon and Sixpence — книга для чтения (C1)

"Tell him that our home cries out for him. Everything isjust the same, and yet everything is different. Ican't live without him. I'd sooner kill myself. Talk to him about the past, and all we've gone through together. What am I to say to the children when they ask for him? His room is exactly as it was when he left it. It's waiting for him. We're all waiting for him."

Now she told me exactly what I should say. She gave me elaborate answers to every possible observation of his.

"You will do everything you can for me?" she said pitifully. "Tell him what a state I'm in."

I saw that she wished me to appeal to his sympathies byevery means in my power. She was weeping freely. I was extraordinarily touched. I felt indignant at Strickland's cold cruelty, and I promised to do all I could to bring him back. I agreed to go over on the next day but one, and to stay in.

Ir'aris till I had achieved something. Then, as it was growing late and we were both exhausted by so much emotion, I left her.