The looters’ secret need

Atlas Shrugged – Day 038 – pp. 369-378

While she’s waiting she recalls all the incredible gifts he’s given her. . .

“The single pear shaped ruby that spurted a violent fire on the white satin of the jeweler’s box. It was a famous stone which only a dozen men in the world could properly afford to purchase; he was not one of them.”

“On the evening of a blizzard, she came home to find an enormous spread of tropical flowers standing in he living room against the dark glass of windows battered by snowflakes.”

“. . .he brought and put over her shoulders was a cape of blue fox that swallowed her from the curve of her chin to the tips of her sandals.”

Out for a secluded dinner one evening, he again confesses what he believes to be his sin.

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