She told herself: Their acquaintance had been based on an error from the start. The copy of Anna Karenina under her arm amounted to false papers; it had given Tomas the wrong idea. In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. the fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rahter in their incompatibility........
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.