XI
Like a Stone Wall
MY FRIEND Annabel Lee has told me there are bitterer things in store for me than I have known yet.
Times I have wondered what they can be.
"When you have come to them," said my friend Annabel Lee, "they will be so bitter and will fit so well into your life that you will wonder that you did not always know about them, and you will wonder why you did not always have them."
"The bitterest things I have known yet," I said, "have had to do with the varying friendship of one or another whom I have loved."
