If you should see him, do not say I mentioned his visit. It was rather
painful. He was shy, and I, too, was nervous. One cannot spend a whole
year alone on an island without feeling bewildered by the sudden
apparition of a fellow-creature....
Tell your chauffeur to get the car ready. Should you find the
neighbourhood very fascinating, you could always telegraph to him to
bring it at once.
If the manufactory, or any other plans, prevent your coming, send me a
few lines. Till we meet,
Your ELSIE,
who perhaps after all is not suited to a hermit's life.
* * * * *
So he has dared!...
So all his passion, and his grief at parting, were purely a part that he
played!... Who knows? Perhaps he was really glad to get rid of me....
Ah, but this scorn and contempt!...
Elsie Lindtner, do you realise that in the same year, the same month,
you have offered yourself to two men in succession and both have
declined the honour? Luckily there is no one else to whom you can abase
yourself.
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