7/19 It is his mind, darling, his mind that calls me father.' 'His mind!' she repeated with a titter between scorn and hysterics. 'His mind, indeed! Henri, is this an idiotic pleasantry, or are you mad? He will be strikingly antipathetic to my ever beautiful Anastasie. She will never understand him; he will never understand her. So much so, that, to be perfectly frank, I stand in some awe of him myself. |