Chapter 6

Jonathan never imagined he would meet her again, because the separation had been final and bitter, irreversible things had been argued and said.

'If you had a little more sense, Jonathan, you'd leave this hospital in Hong Kong and come work in a good London hospital, then we could both take care of our careers.' You have no right to expect me to abandon mine, just to become a simple housewife, stuck there in that city on the other side of the world! I would die of boredom! I'm an actress, and a very good one at that, and my career is just as important as yours!

All the words and scenes swirled through her mind; the delirium of love, the disillusionment, the broken dream. It had been a love affair at first sight, at least on his part, full of passion and ardor and Jonathan had believed that when he finished his year-long internship in London, Gloria would go with him to Hong Kong, but she soon made him realize that this idea of a wife following her husband wherever he went to work was