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she received her travelling companion’s advice
and comfort. In spite of her real grief, the
fantastic element in her was strong enough to
make her enjoy the mystification. When the
gentleman proposed that they should go out
together and see the town through which they had
to pass, she consented, and spent two days there
in his company, after which they separated
without having told each other their names or
positions.
This little episode is very characteristic of
Sonia’s taste for adventure. She liked the
stranger, his kind sympathy touched her; why
not accept this little pleasure which chance
threw in her path? Another woman no doubt
would have been compromised in the eyes of the
gentleman by allowing herself such liberty;
but to Sonia, who for so many years had lived
in companionship with her own husband
without belonging to him, the affair seemed very
simple, and she was well aware that, in her
intercourse with men, it lay with herself to draw the
limit where she liked. No man could ever
misunderstand her in this respect.
Later on, during her residence in Paris, she
showed a similar disregard of conventionality in
carrying to the extreme limit a relation, which
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