“ ‘You want this of me, yet you don’t come to me,’ he said. ‘There are things you want to know, and you don’t ask. You see Claudia slipping away from you, yet you seem powerless to prevent it, and then you would hasten it, and yet you do nothing.’ “ ‘I don’t understand my own feelings. Perhaps they are clearer to you than they are to me.…’ “ ‘You don’t begin to know what a mystery you are!’ he said.
