Cecilia Adler felt a wave of guilt wash over her.
Her in-laws had never treated her unfairly.
'So what if... so what if Ian really is two different people?'
'It's not like he wanted this.'
'He took such meticulous care of her, always sharing the household chores. He risked getting arrested to help her sell stamps and Copper Coins. He had braved the frozen landscape, staying up through the night to face the biting north wind with her, just to fish in the outskirts and haul the catch back into the city. He even lived in the mountains for half a month, all for her, just to research a shampoo formula.'
'If she were on her own, who knows how much hardship she would have endured and how much time it would have taken to accomplish all this.'
'And yet, she was always so suspicious of him, just because he wasn't like other people.'
'How could I be so heartless?'
'I should be more understanding and take better care of him.'
