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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comLOVE IS EXCEPTION MAKING 223Besides Frank’s decline, Rand was further disconcerted by the deteriorationof her connection to Nathan. Aside from a few brief episodesjust after Atlas Shrugged appeared, their relationship had been platonicfor years. Rand had halted the affair during the depths of her depression.After recovering her spirits she became eager to rekindle their romance.Nathan, however, was reluctant and uninterested. He offered one excuseafter another. It was the strain of betraying Barbara; the stress of cuckoldingFrank; the pressure of lecturing at NBI, deceiving his studentsand public audience. What Nathan kept from Rand was the most obviousexplanation of all: he had fallen in love with one of his NBI students,a twenty-three-year-old model named Patrecia Gullison.Nathan first noticed Patrecia when she enrolled in his Principlesclass. Strikingly beautiful in the manner of Dominique Francon orDagny Taggart, Patrecia was far more lighthearted than any Rand heroine.Carefree and gay, she teased Nathan about his serious bearing,even as she made her dedication to Objectivism clear. She struck upa romance with another Objectivist and invited both the O’Connorsand the Brandens to the wedding, where Nathan brooded at the sightof her with another man. Soon the two began meeting privately underthe aegis of her interest in Objectivism. Their conversations in his officegrew longer. Nathan’s feelings for Patrecia, which developed into anintense sexual affair, lit the fuse that would blow Objectivism sky high.Unaware of Nathan’s new dalliance but anxious to maintain Objecti v-ist rationality, Barbara petitioned her husband for permission to renewrelations with an old boyfriend who was now working at NBI. First Nathanforbade it, then he relented. Barbara’s new sanctioned liaison forced theBrandens to admit that their marriage had been a hollow shell for years.Mismatched from the beginning, the pair had no natural chemistry andlittle in common besides mutual admiration for Rand. In 1965 they decidedto separate. Just months later Patrecia and her husband split up.All this was more than enough to make Rand uneasy and illtempered.She had counseled Barbara and Nathan through each stepof their relationship and endorsed their marriage. The separation was asign that she had failed. Even more significantly, the Brandens’ marriage,however troubled, meant Nathan was taken by a woman Rand liked andeven controlled; their secret was safe with Barbara. Now Nathan couldonce again become a single man. And he had lost the one believableexcuse that could explain his reluctance to begin relations with Rand