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This frightened her Always, her husband was to her the

unknown to which she was delivered up She was a flower that has

been tempted forth into blossom, and has no retreat He had her

nakedness in his power And as he, as he? A blind

thing, a dark force, without knowledge She wanted to preserve

herself

Then she gathered hiain and was satisfied for

a an to realizedark, alien to

herself She had thought hiht reflex of herself

As the weeks and months went by she realized that he was a dark

opposite to her, that they were opposites, not complements

He did not alter, he remained separately himself, and he

seemed to expect her to be part of hiain power over her, without

knowing her What did he want? Was he going to bully her?

What did she want herself? She answered herself, that she

wanted to be happy, to be natural, like the sunlight and the