Llosa and O'Conner

A review of Mario Varga Llosa's new novel, "The Bad Girl", describes how the narrator is smitten for life by the bad girl; he shouldn't be according to all human reason, but he is. However bad the bad girl is she always returns to him and always he accepts her back. He is truly smitten for life. I suppose it happens. It happened to the husband whose wife left him to live with Frank O'Conner, the short story writer. An old Irish lady told me this story: the husband was an army captain; his wife left him to live with the writer but when O'Conner died the captain asked her to come back to him. And she did. And, as they say in the fairy tales, "they were happy ever after".