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"What for?" asked Sonia amazed. Her recent meeting with his

mother and sister had left a great impression which she could not

analyse. She heard his news almost with horror.

"I have only you now," he added. "Let us go together.... I've

come to you, we are both accursed, let us go our way together!"

His eyes glittered "as though he were mad," Sonia thought, in her

turn.

"Go where?" she asked in alarm and she involuntarily stepped

back.

"How do I know? I only know it's the same road, I know that and

nothing more. It's the same goal!"

She looked at him and understood nothing. She knew only that he

was terribly, infinitely unhappy.

"No one of them will understand, if you tell them, but I have

understood. I need you, that is why I have come to you."

"I don't understand," whispered Sonia.