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"How can you imagine I would do such a great wrong, and
sin against God?"
"You mean because you don’t love me? But I tell you it
does not matter, because I know my love is such that you will
end by returning it, when you have lived wrapped in it for a
time."
He seized her in his arms, covering her face with kisses. She
made no resistance, but whispered:
"Don’t, Gunnar, please."
He released her reluctantly:
"Why may I not?"
"Because it is you. I don’t know if I should have minded
if it had been anybody else for whom I did not care at all."
Gunnar held her hand and they walked up and down in the
moonlight.
"I understand. When you had the little boy you thought
your life had some aim and purpose again after all these aimless
years, because you loved him and you needed him. When he
died you became indifferent to everything and considered
yourself superfluous in the world."
Jenny nodded:
"There are a few people I care for enough to be sorry if I
knew them in distress and glad if all was well with them. But
I myself cannot add either to their sorrow or their joy—it has
always been so, and one of the reasons why I was unhappy and
filled with longing was just that my life was spent without
making anybody happy. My sole wish and yearning was to
make another being happy. I have always believed in that as
the greatest blessing in life. You spoke of the joy of work—to
me it never seemed enough, and it is very selfish, besides,
because the greatest joy and satisfaction of it is yours alone;
you cannot share it with anybody else. Unless you can share
your happiness with others, you lose the greatest possible joy.
When you are quite young and feel strongly you are selfish
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