Kate didn’t say anything. She wanted Richard to feel as jealous as she had. She wanted him to feel the same hurt.
“You have put me in misery,” he said. “If I lost you, I would die,” Richard declared, his face flushed with excitement. “There is nothing in my life that you don’t know. You’re mine and you will always belong to me.”
Kate’s early married life in Wait Until Morning is closely managed by her meddling mother, her doting father, and Richard, her feckless and flamboyant husband. Kate does her best to deal with Richard’s illusions —he always seeks what is not there—despite the antagonism of her family, friends and a psychiatrist. However, her passion for Richard and her obligations to parents and children eventually lead her to a breakdown in which she doubts her reality.
