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South Africa They made her miserable, and she tried to have as

little to do with them as possible But Skrebensky was out

there He sent her an occasional post-card But it was as if she

were a blank wall in his direction, without s or outgoing

She adhered to the Skrebensky of her er wrenched her life as it seemed

froed to

it, and she was aridly transplanted He was really only a

e passion, after the

departure of Winifred He was to her alh hiht return

to her own self, which she was before she had loved Winifred,

before this deadness had co But even her ination

She dreaether She

could not drea now,

of what relation he would have to her now Only sometimes she

wept to think how cruelly she had suffered when he left

her--ah, how she had suffered! She remembered what

she had written in her diary: "If I were the moon, I knohere I would fall down"