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When I was a girl; Gisla; my German
gouvernante; was very shocked and she would not tell me。 But I
heard the servants talking。 I remember; it was Pierre; the
coachman。 And my father; and some of his friends; landowners;
they had taken a wagon; a whole railway wagon……that you
travel in〃
〃A railway…carriage;〃 said Brangwen。
She laughed to herself。
〃I know it was a great scandal: yes……a whole wagon; and
they had girls; you know; filles; naked; all the
wagon…full; and so they came down to our village。 They came
through villages of the Jews; and it was a great scandal。 Can
you imagine? All the countryside! And my mother; she did not
like it。 Gisla said to me; 'Madame; she must not know that you
have heard such things。'
〃My mother; she used to cry; and she wished to beat my
father; plainly beat him。 He would say; when she cried because
he sold the forest; the wood; to jingle money in his pocket; and
go to Warsaw or Paris or Kiev; when she said he must take back
his word; he must not sell the forest; he would stand and say;
'I know; I know; I have heard it all; I have heard it all
before。 Tell me some new thing。 I know; I know; I know。' Oh; but
can you understand; I loved him when he stood there under the
door; saying only; 'I know; I know; I know it all already。' She
could not change him; no; not if she killed herself for it。 And
she could change everybody else; but him; she could not change
him〃
Brangwen could not understand。 He had pictures of a
cattle…truck full of naked girls riding from nowhere to nowhere;
of Lydia laughing because her father made great debts and said;
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