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crime had been committed in secret, or else I was mad!
I must know the truth!
To be a deceived husband! What did I care, as long
as I knew it! I should be the first to laugh at it. Was
there a single man in the world who could be absolutely
certain that he was his wife’s only lover?...
When I thought of the friends of my youth, now
married, I could not pick out one who was not, to some
extent, hookwinked. Lucky men whom no doubts
tortured! It was silly to be small-minded. Whether one
is the only one, or whether one has a rival, what does it
matter? The ridicule lies in the fact of not knowing it;
the main thing is to know all about it.
Yet if a man were married for a hundred years he would
still know nothing of the true nature of his wife.
However deep his knowledge of humanity, of the whole
cosmos, he would never fathom the woman whose life is
bound up with his own life. For this reason the story
of poor Monsieur Bovary is such pleasant reading for all
happy husbands....
But as far as I was concerned I wanted the truth. I
must have it. For the sake of revenge? What folly!
Revenge on whom? On my favoured rivals? They did
but make use of their prerogative as males! On my
wife? Did I not say one ought not to be small-minded?
And to hurt the mother of my darlings? How could I
do it?
But I wanted to know; I wanted to know everything.
I determined to examine my life, carefully, tactfully,
scientifically; to make use of all the resources of
psychology: suggestion, thought-reading, mental
torture—none should be neglected; I determined to probe the
deepest depths, not even despising the well-worn,
old-fashioned means of burglary, theft, interception of letters,
forged signatures....
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