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you promise to return it immediately); this
article will give you an approximate idea of
the man. To-day I spoke to B. about him, and
he says that Nansen’s works are simply those
of a genius, and that he is too good to be
risking his life in Greenland.’
In Sonia’s next letter we notice the first token
of the crisis which was now to come. There is
no date, but it must have been written in March
the same year. She had now met the man
whose influence was to become paramount for
the last years of her life. She writes:—
‘You put other questions to me; but, as I
cannot even answer them to myself, you must
excuse my leaving them unanswered to you.
I am afraid of making plans for the future.
The only thing, alas, I can say for certain, is
that now, for ten long endless weeks, I shall
have to remain alone here in Stockholm. But,
perhaps it is as well that I should see clearly
how lonely I am indeed.’
I had repeated to her what Scandinavians in
Rome had told me, that several years previously
Nansen had engaged himself to be married to
a German lady. To this I got the following
reply:—
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