Chapter 36

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌⁠The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the order wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence. Meantime, I heard St. John quit his room. He stopped at my door: I feared he would knock—no, but a slip of paper was passed under the door. I took it up. It bore these words—

“You left me too sud