Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

“It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easie…”

“It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mo…”

“... deep down, in some vague, mixed way I had been letting myself hope that he …”

“You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach."I told him I had…”