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Nohat do I get out of the iciness over Suzette's cheque?

Two possibilities--

One--that she is more prudish than one of her literary cultivation, and

worldly knowledge is likely to be, so that she strongly disapproves of

aa "petite amie"--or-Two--that she has sensed that I love her and was affronted at the

discovery that at the saives me hope, and so I fear to entertain a

belief in it--but taken coldly it seems the e, would she have gone on believing I

loved her, and so eventually have shown some reciprocity?

It is just possible--

And as it is, will that same instinct which is in the subconscious mind

of all women--and ht to retain or retake as theirs, influence her now

unconsciously to feel some, even contemptuous, interest in s her to ain-- That is where one is done--when

absence cuts threads

To-morroill be Monday--a whole week since I received her telegra and go myself to

the Hotel de Courville to try and obtain a trace of her--if that is

impossible I rite to the Duchesse-

Reservoirs--Night:

As I wrote the last words--a note was brought to me by Burton--someone

had left at the Hotel