DR. ADRIAAN
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or four years' time, I shall be Johan's wife . . . and have to give up the children, the poor children, to Addie! . . ."
Now she sobbed, because she did not know. The days and months would drift past slowly and slowly before she knew. . . .
There is a sacred knowledge for ourselves, a knowledge so sacred that we know it only . . . when the future is here. . .