23/32 He seems to know nobody--to have no friends, and, I suspect, not much money. He is terribly depressed." Clara folded the letter thoughtfully. "He asks me to tell his mother that the baby has come." "Where is his mother ?" "In Switzerland." "Why is she not with him ?" demanded Lucy angrily. "Wandering about gathering edelweiss, while he is alone and wretched!" "He has his wife. |