Secret, part two

I grew to like my husband,
And humored his clumsy advances
As an actor on a stage
Preforming
For two people in the audience.

Outside--
Outside the house within my skin--
I was
The shy young wife.
He only saw the outside.
Everybody did
Because that's what was easy to see.
Inside, though--
Inside my mind,
Inside the doors of my home--
I was somebody else.
I was somebody
Only Elizabeth saw.

And the curtains of deception
Were slowly, tightly drawn.
But curtains sometimes fold
To let a prying viewer see
A sliver of the secret room within.