Afectos

"There was coldness between them. Olga didn’t write, Ezra didn’t write, but then he did, referring to himself and Olga in the third person, and he was nasty: He never said she was more bother than she was worth; he said she had given him more trouble than all the other women on the planet."

The Quality of the Affection - Lloyd Lynford  in Granta 122: Betrayal