"You will have money enough from your father. But most people
want to be married."
I believe that she then asked the girl if she would not like to marry
me, and that Nancy answered that she would marry me if she were
told to; but that she wanted to go on living there. She added:
"If I married anyone I should want him to be like Edward."
She was frightened out of her life. Leonora writhed on her couch
and called out: "Oh, God! . . ."
Nancy ran for the maid; for tablets of aspirin; for wet
handkerchiefs. It never occurred to her that Leonora's expression
of agony was for anything else than physical pain.
You are to remember that all this happened a month before
Leonora went into the girl's room at night. I have been casting
back again; but I cannot help it. It is so difficult to keep all these
people going. I tell you about Leonora and bring her up to date;
then about Edward, who has fallen behind. And then the girl gets
hopelessly left behind. I wish I could put it down in diary form.
Thus: On the 1st of September they returned from Nauheim.
Leonora at once took to her bed. By the 1st of October they were
all going to meets together. Nancy had already observed very fully
that Edward was strange in his manner.
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