Jun 21, 2022
The ‘memory of an old love’ can trigger the greatest fear of losing your current one.
‘‘Though I once loved Elizabeth, it’s been the memory of that love that bit deepest tonight …what I have seen last night – makes me sick at heart – sick for all the charm and beauty that is lost – in Elizabeth. But most of all it makes me afraid.”
“Afraid, Ross? What of?”
“Of losing you, I suppose.”
“D’you realize there will come a time, there will have to come a time, when I shall never hear your voice again, or you mine? It may be sentimental to say so, but this – this fact is something I find intolerable, unthinkable, beyond bearing . . .”
