27/76 She was delirious when I first saw her, and delirious or unconscious, with few lucid intervals, until she died. And the jargon of her wandering mind was in reality the outpouring of a tortured soul. It was the title and the family name--always that, and nothing else. She wasn't well-born enough or sufficiently educated to bear the title as his wife--it seemed that that fact had been impressed on her again and again in the long lean years of the search for the family tree. go away somewhere quietly with Sisily, and she would never bother him any more. |