Midday is the pleasantest hour now. Then the sea is quiet and free from
trippers. Even the birds cease to sing, and the gardener takes his
sleep. Jeanne sits on the verandah, as I have given her permission to
do, with some little piece of sewing. She is making artificial roses
with narrow pink ribbon; a delightful kind of work.
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DEAR PROFESSOR ROTHE,
Your letter was such a shock to me that I could not answer it
immediately, as I should have wished to do. For that reason I sent you
the brief telegram in reply, the words of which, I am sorry to say, I
must now repeat: "I know nothing about the matter." Lillie has never
spoken a word to me, or made the least allusion in my presence, which
could cause me to suspect such a thing. I think I can truly say that I
never heard her pronounce the name of Director Schlegel.
My first idea was that my cousin had gone out of her mind, and I was
astonished that you--being a medical man--should not have come to the
same conclusion.
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