Manchurian Books

Emotions are changable things"--this was after she had found
that she really loved her husband after all, but he had had to
shoot himself before she found it out, although not fataly--"but
the written word does not change. It remains always, embodying
a dead truth and giving it apparent life. No woman should ever
put her thoughts on paper."
She got the Letter back, but she had to steal it. And it
turned out that the other man had really only wanted her money
all the time.
That story was a real ilumination to me. I shall have a
great deal of money when I am of age, from my grandmother. I saw
it all. It was a trap sure enough. And if I was to get out I
would have to have the letter.
_It was the Letter that put me in his power_.
The next day was Xmas. I got a lot of things, including the
necklace, and a mending basket from Sis, with the hope that it
would make me tidey, and father had bought me a set of Silver
Fox, which mother did not approve of, it being too expencive for
a young girl to wear, according to her. I must say that for an
hour or two I was happy enough.


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