Chapter 23 The portrait and the landscape Act 1

These memories... They never would leave her. Oh Dellis, Dellis... Why could you not leave Rosie's mind? Any innocent thing could remind of you to her. Why did it happen? Maybe the reason is that she loved you too dearly? Though the heartless mind angrily did swell, the mindless heart would still rebel... Then she didn't try to forget him. After long fruitless efforts she understood that it is just useless. This feeling was much stronger than she. The only thing she wished was to know what had happened with him after that fatal night. Did he still love her? Was he looking for her? And at that moment was he thinking about her in the same way as she did? But how could he find her? About this place she herself didn't know till that night. Her parents thought everything out well. Oh Edward... That night she was sitting at her desk. Rosie put before herself a blank piece of paper, took her coloured pencils and started drawing out his image. That hair, those moustaches, that merry smil