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Rachel gave me a direct, bright-eyed look.

She said, `` Reuveni wanted your mother to give up her deep interest in this refugee.

He said she would only hurt herself.

He complained to me once that I must talk to her.

When I did, she shrugged her shoulders and said that Reuveni wanted her to marry him.

I asked her if she would, and she said she would not.

He had known when he first helped her to meet the right people and work with them that she did not intend to marry him.

Anyway, I did not see her until two weeks after the refugee hanged himself.

She came to me one day.

She was pale and skinny ; ;

she was terribly alone.

And she said that after this man had been dead for a week she had gone to Reuveni and accepted his proposal.

He shouted at her and told her he loved her and couldn't understand why she had upset herself.

But now he was happy she would let him straighten out her life and take care of her.

He would never let her harm herself again.

For one whole week he never let her stay alone.

She let him lead her around.

He took her to a doctor, for she was run down, nervous, did not care where she was.

Reuveni took her with him wherever he went.

He did not let her talk to people ; ;

he did not let her choose her own food.

She was limp and beaten from her loss ; ;

she did not care.