He knew what she had come to expect from life before she did, and as soon as he learned it, he gave it to her. She didn’t know that this was happening, nor did she know she was shocked by it. And she didn’t know that she was in pain. Years later, she looked back on it and got some sense of it: some people, not all, but some people, know how little you think of yourself, and treat you back exactly that little you think.
