But, alas! I found you exactly as you had been on the first day, cold, indifferent, treating me as you would have done any other simple customer who passed, recalling me harshly to the commonplaces of life.

On the stairway I staggered.
Once outside, I ran, and was afraid I might scream aloud.

Then, the moment I reached home, it seemed to me I should stifle were I to enter the house.

So I rushed out into the fields, walking by chance first on one side of the road and then on another.

Evening came, and I was still wandering up and down.