It is a question I must answer: it is a multiple question.
Has Rhodopis done this to spite me, wound me, shame me?
Is Kleis doing this to assert herself, to prove that she is not a child? In protest, against me, my house? To estrange us farther?
Did Kleis tell the whole truth about that day at the spring-revel? If I knew what happened...
She seemed so happy on our ocean trip. Or was it I who was happy? Perhaps I teased her too much before Phaon. Did she think I had no right to be attracted to him? Do I make her out to be more sensitive than she really is?
Love is a jealous companion.
Right now, all I can see clearly is that perfumed handkerchief and twirling parasol.
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I have never been afraid of consequences attached to my own actions. Must one learn to be braver than that? Or is this a matter of impersonal wisdom?
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