Konstantin Simonov. The so-called personal life (№ 291715)

- Can you guess why I came? she asked, looking up at him. She was still beautiful, and still it was impossible not to notice.
- No, not guess, ' he said.
It was the truth. My whole life with her, he almost could never guess what she will come to a head in the next minute.
I've come to request that you removed my sin and let me go - without waiting for a response, she said. - I have to marry Evgeny Alekseevich.
Said "come" not "came," probably, in advance thought over. Sinners do not come and come. He looked at her, her delicately twisted and sad in the chair, a familiar body, and refrain from rudeness, said: "Well, times have - and go!" Silent. In the end, what does it? Blame not her, but it was her body that he whole fifteen years loved against the intellect. "And could not break away from him, could not come off", - with contempt for his own weakness he thought about himself. She looked at him, and he was silent. It seemed to her that he is angry or, as she mentally used to say, "bites bit", he softened, amused by the thought of his own fault. Before irritated used to be considered her fault that he needed the body lived the soul of unneeded, is indifferent to what he lived and what he did, occupied only with themselves, and a something- stupid.