Topical Guide 499
Mark Dorset
Eureka Moments
Sinking, as a Metaphor
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 4 continues
In the elevator, on the way down, Belinda feels anger at first, resentment that Matthew would try so hard to put on a good front for Liz, moving those bookcases. She feels a sinking feeling that she takes for falling out of love, but then she reminds herself that she has never been in love with Matthew, nor he with her, and she decides, when the elevator bounces uncertainly and comes to rest a few inches above the lobby, to cut herself loose from this drifting hulk and let him sink without her if he will.
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