A Speck on the Eyelash

Can fear be a self-fulfilling prophecy? A husband, wife and their best friend return from ski vacation. The husband suspects that his wife has fallen in love with the friend. He confronts his friend rather than wife. The friend dismisses the accusation. Is he lying? And if not, how will these doubts affect him, and will he view the wife differently from now on? And the wife: is she indeed in love? If so, will she do something about it? If not, will she sense the suspicions around her? Could she not? And the husband: should he discover that he was wrong, would he be able to stop that which he began with mere words? An anxiety that settled in the mind of one takes over his life and rocks the lives of two others.