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Sitting by the bedside of her dying husband, Caroline relives the one perilous point in their marriage, when it seemed possible that her husband William might defect - to a beautiful law student friend of their daughter's. Though in terror, she had adopted a chillingly controlled strategy of no sudden moves, knowing that 'if you were married the way she was, right to the nerve-endings, you lived in particular peril'. Mediocre marriages were not in such jeopardy. David Sanderson is another anachronism, and he knows it. In the age of the uncommitted male, he is besottedly committed. His wife has been unfaithful and he minds like hell. Counsellors offer him forgiveness workshops, Prozac and Viagra. His wife offers slinky undies instead of the white cotton ones he loves. Why won't anyone accept the fact that he's not depressed... he's heartbroken?