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“Emily brooded and grew morbid over it. A thing like that—a dim, poisonous thing that lurked in shadow and dared not come into the open—always played havoc with her sensitive and passionate temperament. No open quarrel with Ilse could have affected her like this … This was different. The more Emily brooded over it the more monstrous it grew. She was unhappy, absent, restless.”