[He agrees to it, but it's a distracted kind of "yeah", because her anger is all but palpable for a man like James Sunderland, who can read her all too well.
He'd argue that rejecting her was not being cruel, it was simply refusing to live in delusion any longer. But that's probably not where this conversation should go... today. (They have a lot of conversations they need to have that should happen Not Today.) Instead, James distantly realizes that he's been making a lot of decisions in this conversation and offers, uncertain:]
This goes both ways, you know. If you need your space, just say as much, and I'll give it to you.
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[He agrees to it, but it's a distracted kind of "yeah", because her anger is all but palpable for a man like James Sunderland, who can read her all too well.
He'd argue that rejecting her was not being cruel, it was simply refusing to live in delusion any longer. But that's probably not where this conversation should go... today. (They have a lot of conversations they need to have that should happen Not Today.) Instead, James distantly realizes that he's been making a lot of decisions in this conversation and offers, uncertain:]
This goes both ways, you know. If you need your space, just say as much, and I'll give it to you.