If I may so ex­press it, I was steeped in Do­ra. I was not mere­ly over head and ears in love with her, but I was sat­urat­ed through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphor­ical­ly speak­ing, to drown any­body in; and yet there would have re­mained enough with­in me, and all over me, to per­vade my en­tire ex­is­tence.