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...whom he kissed in the woods beyond St. Cloud. His mother's sudden death in a carriage accident put an end to that affair for a while. Then he went to Italy, where his tourist impressions were noted with great care, and finally to the Mediterranean island of Aeaea, "twelve hours from Naples," which is mythical. Mythical or not, there he met Katharina, "Katha" for short, and not much later they were swimming naked in the blue Mediterranean. They planned to live together in London. She was to come to him there August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Softer Answers | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...gone astray. The lovers were lost. So Tony came back and married Margaret because she desperately wanted to and he was suffering from "delayed shock." Not for 13 years did Tony see Katha. By 1927 he had given up his business, had begun wandering round the Continent. At Aeaea they met. Katha was thinner. She had been scrubbing floors in a Vienna department store. Poverty had even pawned her body a few times. She could no longer have a baby. But Tony and Katha were together again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Softer Answers | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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