She

reminded me. While I was looking at her, while she was very close to me, it came over my mind suddenly that we were like each other! Her face was pale and thin and weary⁠—but the sight of it startled me, as if it had been the sight of my own face in the glass after a long illness. The discovery⁠—I don’t know why⁠—gave me such a shock, that I was perfectly incapable of speaking to her for the moment.”

“Did she seem hurt by your silence?”