Chapter 2
If Alexandra had had much imagination she might have guessed
what was going on in Marie's mind, and she would have seen long
before what was going on in Emil's. But that, as Emil himself had
more than once reflected, was Alexandra's blind side, and her life
had not been of the kind to sharpen her vision. Her training had
all been toward the end of making her proficient in what she had
undertaken to do. Her personal life, her own realization of
herself, was almost a subconscious existence; like an underground
river that came to the surface only here and there, at intervals
months apart, and then sank again to flow on under her own fields.
Nevertheless, the underground stream was there, and it was because
she had so much personality to put into her enterprises and
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