And he continued his confidences: "The fact is that I did notknow how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her. I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poorlittle strategems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her......." - P49