But where should I look for her?
At her sister's?
It seemed so stupid to go to ask where one's wife is.

Moreover, may God forbid, I hoped, that she should be at her sister's! If she wishes to torment any one, let her torment herself first.

And suppose she were not at her sister's.
"Suppose she were to do, or had already done, something.
"Eleven o'clock, midnight, one o'clock.

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