noon-clear
sense that
she had
never
loved him
she forgot
for a
moment her
thoughtless
angle on
that day
in
February.
“But there
was a time
when you
turned to
me, before
I thought
of you! I
don’t
reproach
you, for
even now I
feel that
the
ignorant
and cold
darkness
that I
should
have lived
in if you
had not
attracted
me by that
letter –
valentine
you call
it – would
have been
worse than
my
knowledge
of you,
though it
has
brought
this
misery.
