LV. Waiting

mental restlessness would not allow her to remain at home without peremptory occupation, except during the sultry hours. In the cool of the morning and evening she walked out constantly, varying her direction as much as possible, with the vague hope that if Baldassarre were still alive she might encounter him. * Perhaps some illness had brought a new paralysis of memory, and he had forgotten where she lived⁠—forgotten even her existence. * That was her most sanguine explanation of his nonappearance. * The explanation she felt to be most probable was, that he had died