“I stayed there hoping to get a train back to Warsaw. I meant to run away. There is another reason, a terrible entanglement, which made me so eager to get back.”
“Involving you?”
“Yes, I’ll tell you all about it some time. It closely concerns my mother’s safety, too.”
“What brought your uncle to Bratinsk?”
“Affairs of the Fraternity; to consult with one of the leaders.”
“Well, I won’t say all I think of your uncle for having involved you in all this.”
“He is dead. Perhaps if he had not been killed he would have listened to me.”
“Perhaps!” But I had my own opinion. “You are right. Volna has had her troubles.”
“I could not feel so sorry for him as I should, if—if things had been different. I am glad I have told you. It’s such a relief to have told some one. And now you know all about me.”
“Did you manage to write to your mother from Bratinsk?”