3675. He did not actually know what had happened to Alexis,
but he was just indulging his secret wish that the little scoundrel would be
sent to perdition. Meanwhile, Harriett’s distress became more and more acute.
Doctor Herzenstube was sent for, but he pronounced that he could make nothing
of the situation.
3676. The information given to Harriett upset her and caused
her such anguish that she was actually beyond tears and even beyond grief. She
was incapable of taking it in because it did not seem possible or real to her.
First of all she had no idea up until the very moment of his disappearance,
that she was so attached to him.
3677. All along she had thought, and told herself, that
Alexis was like her favorite toy. You dress up the toy, you play with it all
afternoon, but then some distraction arises and you don’t think about it for
another month. That is exactly how she imagined she felt about her pretty
servant.
3678. His sudden disappearance cause an emptiness to open
inside her, the space between the bottom of her heart and the pit of her
stomach seemed to have suddenly disappeared, and in its place she found an
aching void. She was dry-eyed, silent and troubled by this unexpected grief and
went around her afternoon meetings and appointments with a foreboding that the
slightest thing could accidentally produce a flood of hysterical tears.
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