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« Oh! Master! »
« What is the matter? Why are you weeping so bitterly? »
« …Mary is worse than before… different, but still so bad she seems to be mad… I no longer understand her…»
« So why do you think that she is bad? Tell Me what she does…»
« Well. Since I came here, Mary has never left the house or the garden, not even to go out on the lake in her boat. That first night she said to me – and that is why I was so hopeful -, « Hold me back, tie me if necessary but do not let me go out, do not let me see anybody but you and my nurse. Because I am not well and I want to recover… » and she wept.
And I did that; I did it kindly when she was reasonable but I acted firmly when she seemed a wild beast in a cage. She never rebelled against me; quite the contrary, when the worst moments of temptation are over, she comes and weeps at my feet, resting her head on my lap and she says:
« Forgive me, forgive me!» And if I asked her:
« For what, sister? », she replied:
« Because a little while ago, or yesterday evening, when you said to me: « You are not going out from here », I hated and cursed you in my heart and I wished you would die. »
Is she perhaps mad? Have her vices made her mad? I think that one of her lovers has given her a philter to make her a slave of his lust and that its poison has gone to her brains…
…And sometimes she weeps, sometimes she laughs sarcastically like a mad person or a demon or says to me:
« Look, I had rather do this and be done with it » and she ties her plaits around her neck, pulling them tight until her face turns purple as though she wanted to strangle herself. Still other times, she pities or ill-treats herself …I have caught her striking her breast and scratching her face savagely or banging her head against a wall and when I asked her: « Why are you doing that? » she would look at me with a wild deranged expression and say: …