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pensively at the night sky, ' by a letter from the madhouse. Can one really
write to anyone from an address like this? ... I--a mental patient? How
could I make her so unhappy? I ... I couldn't do it.'
Ivan could only agree. The poet's silence was eloquent of his sympathy
and compassion for his visitor, who bowed his head in pain at his memories
and said :
'Poor woman ... I can only hope she has forgotten me . . .'
'But you may recover,' said Ivan timidly.
'I am incurable,' said the visitor calmly. ' Even though Stravinsky
says that he will send me back to normal life, I don't believe him. He's a
humane man and he only wants to comfort me. I won't deny, though, that I'm a
great deal better now than I was. Now, where was I? Oh yes. The frost, the
moving tram-cars ... I knew that this clinic had just been opened and I
crossed the whole town on foot to come here. It was madness! I would
probably have frozen to death but for a lucky chance. A lorry had broken
down on the road and I approached the driver. It was four kilometres past
the city limits and to my surprise he took pity on me. He was driving here
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