Episode 46: Request
"Frank."
"Yes?"
"I'm afraid to stay alone."
"You mean you want me to�"
"There are two beds here."
His reply was slow in coming. Nora didn't wait for it. Her voice rose to the edge of hysteria. "Quit being so damned righteous. Things have changed! Can't you realize that? What does it matter how or where we sleep? Does the world care? Will it make a damn bit of difference to the world whether I strip stark naked in front of you?" A sob choked in her throat. "Or would that outrage your morality."
He moved toward her, stopped six inches away. "It isn't that. For God's sake! I'm no saint. It's just that I thought you�"
"I'm plain scared, and I don't want to be alone. To me that's all that's important."
Her face was against his chest and his arms went around her. But her own hands were fists held together against him until he could feel her knuckles, hard, against his chest. She was crying.
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