Strangers on a Train

The train rushed along angrily. Guy was thinking about Miriam. He saw her round pink face, her cruel mouth ... he started to hate her.
‘Perhaps Miriam doesn’t want a divorce,’ Guy thought unhappily. ‘But she’s pregnant and it’s not my child, and she must want to marry the father. Why does she want to see me, though? She can get a divorce without that. Perhaps she doesn’t want a divorce, only money.’
Miriam sometimes asked him for money and he always sent it because she was good at making trouble and Guy didn’t want his mother to be unhappy. In Metcalf, Guy’s home town, Miriam pretended that Guy lived in New York so he could succeed as an architect before he sent for her.
Guy thought about his girlfriend Anne and how much he loved her, and about the important job he had in Florida. He felt happy. ‘Soon . . .’ Guy said to himself. ‘Soon . . .’ He started to read his book.