:39:03
l do indeed.
:39:05
lt is perhaps the only true source of joy.
:39:08
Or it should be at least.
:39:11
But everyone is so wrapped up
in mundane things.
:39:15
lncluding me.
:39:17
ln the end, though...
:39:19
we are what we are.
:39:44
ALL WAS STlLL lN THE HOUSE.
:39:48
''What I hinted at recentIy
has now been confirmed.
:39:52
''Every day anew,
Innstetten expresses his joy at the news.
:39:56
''I need not teII you how happy I am myseIf...
:40:01
''since I shaII have new Iife
and distraction about me...
:40:05
''or, as Geert puts it, 'a precious toy.'
:40:09
''Those are probabIy the right words,
but he shouIdn't use them.
:40:13
''They're Iike a stab in the heart...
:40:17
''and remind me how young I am...
:40:19
''and that I'm scarceIy out of the nursery.''
:40:40
-Who was she?
-Registrar Rode's widow.
:40:49
Strange...
:40:50
l always imagined
registrars' widows to be poor.
:40:54
So they are as a rule.
:40:55
She was an exception.
:40:58
She was altogether a very peculiar woman...