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longer in a normal state of mind; his nerves
had been over-excited, and he could not recover
the lost balance.’
The adventurer had no more ardent wish than
to separate the too clear-sighted wife from her
husband, and he profited by the dawning
discontent between them, to make her suspect that her
husband’s reticence had another cause than she
supposed, and that she had reason to be jealous.
From Sonia’s own statements we know, that
as a child of ten she had a tendency to
passionate jealousy. To touch this chord was to
rouse the strongest passion of her ardent nature.
Sonia lost her critical insight, and was incapable
of examining whether the accusation was true
or not—in later years she was almost positive
that the whole thing was an invention—she only
felt an intense desire to get away, away from the
humiliation of feeling herself abandoned, a fear
lest her passion should tempt her to base
espionage, or to making a scandal. To live
with a husband whose love and confidence she
thought she had lost, to see him go to ruin
without being able to stop him, was a task beyond
her nature. She was incapable of resigning; in
matters of feeling she was as uncompromising
and exacting as she was forbearing and easy to
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