"One can't spy on one's wife through a friend - and that friend to be her lover."

"Oh, it's not done," I said, "but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire.  The not done things are done every day, Henry.  It's part of modern life.  I've done most of them myself."

The End of the Affair.  Thanks a million 10loves10 for suggesting I reread it.

I started reading Graham Greene's novels from a very young and impressionable age.  From them I learnt tthe intense sexual appea of having an affair with a married woman.  Ah, adultert!  Strange I have committed so little over the years... except in 1970/1..