Note 167 — Chapter III · CAPTAIN LEOPOLD INTRODUCES HIS FRIEND. (continued 4)
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It will occur to the ingenious reader, as indeed it has to the ingenious writer, that it would have been much simpler and more natural to ask Pauline to write her wishes. So it would. But then André was a poet and a genius, and—this is a romance. Besides, who knows but Pauline might have been locked up at the critical moment and denied writing materials?