In this story, the recipient is unexpectedly changed by years of smoldering and sparkling feeling. It is not the wife whom the main character once married. She is her … daughter. Her father platonically falls in love with her when she was an adult and a young woman.
He was morbidly jealous of her. I suspect that it is like that for most fathers, who are overzealously caring for their adolescent children.
But he knew it. He stopped rejecting information from himself because he was a conscious man, successful in business.
He was aware that he was walking a thin rope. He remembered the moments when, as a parent, he looked after a growing child, and on the other hand, he watched the young and attractive woman mature next to him. She became the object of his deep sighs. The child became a woman, and the line in the mind of a mature man was blurred. The growing feeling was getting out of hand.
Being next to each other every day constantly exposed the effort to control what flowed from the heart. Not made up and true. However, not accepted by the surrounding world.
After all, being at an international fair …
