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I find, as you prophesied, much that's interesting, but little that helps the delicate question–the possibility of publication.

I. I know perfectly of course that I brought it upon myself; but that doesn't make it any better.

II. That's just half my tale–the extraordinary way it was hindered.

III. When to crown our long acquaintance I accepted his renewed offer of marriage it was humorously said, I know, that I had made the gift of his photograph a condition.

IV. When accordingly at five she presented herself I naturally felt false and base.

V. In the train the next day this struck me a good deal for him to have consented to; but my purpose was firm enough to carry me on.

VI. He broke it presently by saying: “There's absolutely no doubt of her death?”

VII. It was my theory, my conviction, it became, as I may say, my attitude, that they had still never “met”; and it was just on this ground that I said to myself it would be generous to ask him to stand with me beside her grave.

the_way_it_came.txt · Last modified: 2018/09/01 09:50 by francesco