"What do you want me to do?"
At this point, any further explanation was useless; the choice was not hers to make. She suppressed the fear in her heart and asked softly.
"Tomorrow I will accompany you to the hospital." He looked at her coldly.
Amanda Smith's eyes snapped open. There was no incredulity in her gaze; it was as if she had already known his choice, only a dead, ashen stillness lingered.
After a moment, she said softly, "I will leave the Johnson family, leave Priocia, and never appear before you again. This child is solely mine, having nothing to do with you. In the future, you will have other wives, you will have beloved children, and I will not exist in your world, never... not even then, is it unacceptable?"
A flicker of agitation seemed to pass through Samuel Johnson's eyes, and he asked abruptly, "Where will you go?"