But he was rich—and so—she went to him!
At once the open volume of her life
Lay plain before me, and I read therein,
That she was—womankind!
Mad with the frenzy of a shipwrecked heart,
And with the old fond test-words of our love
Ringing a mocking echo through my brain,
I cursed the world and all the women in it,
And here sought sanctuary.
Ans.Ah, my son,