Somehow, he had wormed his way into her private self, the place where she lived.

Or maybe Szymanski didn't really believe, not down deep, that his own personal private self could ever stop existing.

But they will discover a fresh interpretation of the relationship between her private and public selves.

Do they guess that I have hidden my private self there?

That was something she would never again give a man, the power to see into her private self.

On the contrary, she is here as her own private self.

"There is less difference between his public and private selves than with almost anyone I've ever met."

Must it be grounded in our sense of Vincent's private self?

"He has a really hard time reconciling his public and private selves."

But did you see any schism between his public and private selves?