A madness siezed me. Now that everything is over, I realize
that it was madness. But "there is a divinity that shapes our
ends etc." It was to be. It was Karma, or Kismet, or whatever
the word is. It was written in the Book of Fate that I was to go
ahead, and wreck my life, and generaly ruin everything.
I locked the door behind Hannah, and stood with tradgic
feet, "where the brook and river meet." What was I to do? How
hide this evadence of my (presumed) duplicaty? I was inocent,
but I looked gilty. This, as everyone knows, is worse than gilt.
I unpacked the Suitcase as fast as I could, therfore, and
being just about destracted, I bundled the things up and put
them all together in the toy Closet, where all Sis's dolls and
mine are, mine being mostly pretty badly gone, as I was always
hard on dolls.
How far removed were those Inocent Years when I played with
dolls!
Well, I knew Hannah pretty well, and therfore was not
surprised when, having hidden the trowsers under a doll buggy,
I heard mother's voice at the door.
"Let me in, Barbara," she said.
I closed the closet door, and said: "What is it, mother?"
"Let me in.
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