In the margin of the latter, however, is written: "It was not of the tree of knowledge that I ate for no evil followed--it must be of the tree of life that grows close beside it or--".

Perhaps this was intended to go in the preceding paragraph after "My ideas were enlarged by his conversation." Then, when this paragraph was added, the figure, noticeably changed, was included here.
[19] Here the MS of _F of F--B_ breaks off to resume only with the meeting of Mathilda and Woodville.
[20] At the end of the story (p.

79) Mathilda says, "Death is too terrible an object for the living." Mary was thinking of the deaths of her two children.
[21] Mary had read the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius in 1817 and she had made an Italian translation, the MS of which is now in the Library of Congress.

See _Journal_, pp.

79, 85-86.
[22] The end of this paragraph gave Mary much trouble.