Dance Me to the End of Love

"I thought if she learned to love me it mightbring sorrow to her. Oh, you mayn't believe me, but that's what I felt."
　　"I see. Do you still think you were right?"
　　"No," said Bess. "I don't. I think now I may have been entirelywrong."
　　"Does your daughter know Ladislaus Malinowski?"
　　"I'm sure she doesn't. She said so. You heard her."
　　"I heard her, yes."
　　"Well, then?"
　　"She was afraid, you know, when she was sittinghere. In our profession we get to know fear when we meet up with it. She was afraid –why? Chocolates or no chocolates, her life has been attempted. Thattube story may be true enough –”
　　"It was ridiculous. Like a thriller –”