of your surroundings was nothing to be compared with the mere fact that you lived; that you were unhappy and in danger was my only grief, but it was nothing to the thought of your death; and that I had to wait twenty-four hours without coming to you drove me nearer to madness than ever I was on the hen-coop. That’s how I love you, Eva,” I concluded; “that’s how I love and will love you, for ever and ever, no matter what happens.”
of your surroundings was nothing to be compared with the mere fact that you lived; that you were unhappy and in danger was my only grief, but it was nothing to the thought of your death; and that I had to wait twenty-four hours without coming to you drove me nearer to madness than ever I was on the hen-coop. That’s how I love you, Eva,” I concluded; “that’s how I love and will love you, for ever and ever, no matter what happens.”