He still hoped that Rosa, alone and unprotected as she was, without the legal ownership of herself, and subdued by sickness and trouble, would finally accede to his terms.
She, in her unconscious state, was of course ignorant of this correspondence.

For some time after she recognized her nurses, she continued to be very drowsy, and manifested no curiosity concerning her condition.

She was as passive in their hands as an infant, and they treated her as such.

Chloe sung to her, and told her stories, which were generally concerning her own remarkable experiences; for she was a great seer of visions.

Perhaps she owed them to gifts of imagination, of which culture would have made her a poet; but to her they seemed to be an objective reality.