My Great Love #3

"My Horrible Mistake" A woman reflects on a childhood without happiness, raised in a small, gossipy town governed by propriety. She fell in love with Perry at a school dance, but married Lee instead out of duty and convention. Years later, when Lee becomes jealous and angry upon learning she plans to attend a gathering where Perry will be present, he strikes her and leaves in a rage. After Lee's departure, the narrator realizes he has become a wiser, more forgiving man, and reconciliation seems possible until she makes a fateful decision to tell him about her prison record, which causes him to reject her entirely.