Michael’s voice was no longer pleading, trembling with a tremor of anger. How could he be an obstacle to peace? Do not just tell he just wanted to be a companion of his disgrace, forgotten love, with a neutral affect and sweet, equal to the friendship? … Now that she was unhappy, I felt more strongly the desire to remain at his side. Why he was fleeing absurd whim?

Alicia looked at him with teary eyes that reflected the vacillations of his thought. At the end seemed to mind.

-You have not changed, ’said a low voice, but I’m different. The misfortune has made me another woman. I myself do not recognize me … A fixed idea dominates me. Maybe it’s absurd, if I say it will, I know you will protest with righteous indignation. No, it’s not your fault, but it is better not see you. Your presence makes my biggest regret. Seeing, I feel a great shame, a desire to die, kill me. I have a suspicion that I’m the one who murdered my son … I remember what happened between us recognize the punishment.

The anger faded Lubimoff unexplained by these words. Mechanically he took her hand caressing a sweetness, as if they were those of a deliriously sick. Quiet! What was I saying? What remorse were those? The hands left to play through the gloves with passive resignation, but then resurrected, shedding of Miguel violently, as if just received a profound shock. “No! No! “And the prince was convinced that between the two there was a sort of fluid repellent, something I had not known before: the fear of him.

He was so embarrassed and humiliated by this movement retractable not know what to say. She took his silence to go on, but as if he alone translate a nightmare, as if he saw the man standing before him.