THE OLD MAN.
It is better not to be alone. A sorrow that one does not bring alone is not so unmixed nor so heavy…. I was thinking of that as we were coming here…. If I go in alone, I shall have to be speaking from the first minute; in a few words they will know everything, and I shall have nothing more to say; and I am afraid of the silence following the last words that announce a woe…. It is then the heart is rent…. If we go in together, I shall tell them, for example, after going a long way about, "She was found so…. She was floating in the river, and her hands were clasped."…
THE STRANGER.
Her hands were not clasped; her arms were hanging down along her body.