Chapter 75

"No Philip, I did not do anything stupid. I took the gun just in case I ran into one of those people who tried to take Antonia the other day. I was not going to off myself. I want to talk to her before even think of doing something like that."

"Frank, you will not think about doing that ever. Your parents will be here soon and you have a long life to live. It just will not be with Antonia, because of what you did."

"Philip have you ever been so deeply in love that it hurts. When the woman you love smiles at you, your house could be burning down around you, and it would not matter. She can drive you crazy all day long and you keep coming back for more, because you love her so much. Have you ever been in love like that?

"Since you put it that way, Frank, thankfully I have not been in love that way. That is, also, the reason I am still a bachelor I guess. I have never heard a man put so much pain into an explanation of love in my entire l