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demands. She could not travel alone, he was
to come and fetch her, and take her wherever
she wanted to go; while he was most absorbed
in his work, she gave him commissions, and
expected him to help her with all those trifles
he had been in the habit of attending to most
amiably, but which now seemed to irritate
him.
‘When in aftertimes Sonia spoke to me about
her past life, her bitterest complaint was:
“Nobody has really loved me!” And when
I objected, But your husband did love you
most fondly and truly, she always said, “He
only loved me when I was with him, but he
could do quite well without me.”
‘To me it seemed very natural, that he should
prefer not to be continually in her presence,
under the existing circumstances; but Sonia
could not see this. From her childhood she
had been rather fond of carrying everything to
extremes. She wished to possess without being
possessed. I think this was to a great extent
the origin of her life’s tragedy.’
I shall add a few more observations by her
friend and fellow-student during those years,
which will show that these peculiarities of her
character were developed from her earliest youth,
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