9/27 The riddle of her was more burdensome in the daylight. How, when, where, and the means and the aim, he did not think of. There was she, and here was he, and heaven and a great heart would show the way. By right he should have loved the portrait best: but he had not seen it first; he had already lived through a life of emotions with the miniature, and could besides clasp the frame; and moreover he fondled an absurd notion that the miniature would be entrusted to him for a time, and was almost a possession. |