He said David was not there. Ruth had been riding a roller coaster for almost two years and now she knew it had stopped, perhaps forever. If only David had come to the telephone and spoken to her, it is likely she would have exhausted her pent up feelings, berated and abused him, and then gone back to loving him, as she had done so often in the past. If only I had been able to speak to him and give vent to my feelings, I do not think any of this would have happened. Now it all changed.
Psychologists know that there is a close homogeneity between love and hate.
Ruth had loved David passionately and now she switched to hating him with the same emotional excess. Throughout the rest of that evening, Ruth kept calling the Findlater s flat. Eventually, they removed the phone from its cradle. By midnight, Ruth was in a frantic and hysterical state. She called Desmond and he agreed to drive her to Tanza Road.