XV

I HAVE BEEN engrossed in Rudolf’s stamp album again today. What a wonderful study! That text is full of references, allusions and hints, full of ambiguous flickering. But all the lines converge in Bianka. Such thrilling suppositions! In ever greater enthrallment, my suspicions run from crisscross to crisscross, as if along a fuse ignited by luminous hopes. Oh, how I suffer as my heart contracts from the mysteries I foresee.