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Still in the innermost recesses of their hearts
there was a burning sensation of disappointed
hopes.
How very different, Sonia said to herself,
everything might have been, if they had not
both made certain fatal mistakes.
Out of these reflections was born the idea of
writing two parallel novels, which were to relate
the history of the same person in two different
ways. They were to be represented in the
prime of youth, with all its possibilities, and led
to an important crisis in life. One of the novels
was to show the consequences of the choice
they had actually made, the other how things
might have turned out if they had chosen the
reverse.
Who amongst us, Sonia reasoned, has not
a false step to repent of, and who has not wished
many a time to be able to live his life over
again from the beginning? It was this wish,
this dream, she wanted to give shape in a novel
—if she had the gift of doing it, which seemed
rather doubtful to her. So when she came
home to Stockholm, full of enthusiasm for her
new idea, she tried to persuade me that we
should write it together.
Just about this time I had commenced a new
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