I’ve known William for a long time. We’ve been friends since we were kids. We talk to each other from time to time. Once, during one of my regular meetings with him, my acquaintance was completely depressed and upset. William is a fairly simple person and it is not easy for him to hide his emotions. We did not drink our usual coffee, but ordered a strong drink and started to have a heart-to-heart talk.
It turned out that William had problems with his wife. I was not very familiar with her, but I did not feel much sympathy for her either, despite the fact that they had been married for a long time. I never showed my dislike. All of our mutual meetings were as positive as possible. It turned out that I was not wrong about his wife. But William had spent more than ten years of his life on this relationship.
He met his wife when he was 20 years old. The girl was considered one of the most beautiful in our entire university. But she didn’t have many girlfriends. But William fell in love with her almost at first sight. Two years later they arranged a wedding. And two years later they called me to baptize their first child.
Then their daughter was born. They lived well. It wasn’t perfect, things happened, but they always found a way out. A few years ago my wife went back to work after my maternity leave. She found a good job at a firm where we had a mutual acquaintance. At first everything was fine. Then William noticed the first changes in his wife’s behavior and mood. In addition, she began to have new, quite expensive things!
William is an open, sincere and trusting person. He quickly forgets insults and quarrels. And a week ago he was sitting at dinner with the same general acquaintance, who works with his wife at the same firm, and learned that all employees are aware of her affair with the boss. William could not believe what he heard, because they had been married for so long and were raising children. But the phone number of the boss, he still wrote it down.
After the New Year’s Eve party, his wife did not return home until morning. William began to ask his wife what happened and where she was. She responded by making a scandal. Then she packed some things and left without explanation. William decided to go to his wife’s boss. He hailed a cab, knocked on the door, and met a stranger.
Behind the stranger’s broad shoulders stood his wife. She said she no longer loved William and was filing for divorce. Now she would live with a new lover. About the children she did not remember. How will he talk to them about his mother’s deed?
