I agree that this wasn’t very clear but this is what I think happened...
<PERSON> ALERT:
I think that <PERSON> either assumed this via <PERSON> (her brother) or <PERSON> may have actually told her to keep her from reaching out to <PERSON> for the same reason <PERSON> went to the train station and didn’t tell <PERSON> what happened with <PERSON> (that she was boarded up in her room). I think it is the former because she was never allowed to leave her room and all communication to and from her was cut off.
For completeness I wanted to post both letters:
<PERSON>’s Chapter 2
Here we see <PERSON>’s love for <PERSON>: <PERSON> sent money books and friendship. <PERSON> would mail letters to <PERSON> via <PERSON> which <PERSON> did mail from different post offices but knew it was useless. Again, this is why I don’t think <PERSON> actually told anything to <PERSON> directly.
<PERSON> from <PERSON> that she was locked and never left. Again evidence that <PERSON> and <PERSON> did not speak after the incident. <PERSON> gave the fake letter for <PERSON> via <PERSON> which was a sheet of paper handwritten by <PERSON> stating:
Dear <PERSON>,
I am writing to notify you of my forthcoming marriage and to entreat you not to write to me anymore. To forget me and rebuild your life. I don’t bear you any grudge but I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t confess to you that I have never loved you and never will be able to love you. I wish you the best wherever you may be.
<PERSON>
—- <PERSON> didnt believe she wrote it willingly because <PERSON> knew he was in Paris but the letter indicated that she didn’t know where he was. <PERSON> didn’t send the letter to <PERSON> because he didn’t want to hurt <PERSON>.
<PERSON> a servant was dismissed when it was discovered that she secretly posted a letter from <PERSON> to <PERSON>. <PERSON> deduced that the only address she would send it to is his parents’ hoping that it would reach <PERSON>. <PERSON> went to get the letter from <PERSON> (<PERSON>’s mother) who he found out no longer lived there. Then he wanted to speak to the <PERSON> who said he “has no son.” <PERSON> left without knowing if it would end up in the hands of the caretaker and <PERSON> never received the letter which <PERSON> found Chapter 15-16.
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The real letter written by <PERSON>, discussed at the end of Chapter 16:
18 October 1919
Dear <PERSON>,
This morning I found out through <PERSON> that you did in fact leave Barcelona to go in pursuit of your dreams. I always feared that those dreams would never allowed you to be mine or anyone else’s. 86
I would have liked to see you one last time to be able to look into your eyes and tell you things that I don’t know how to say in a letter. Nothing came out the way we had planned. I know you too well and I know you won’t write to me. That you won’t even send me your address, that you will want to be another person. I know you will hate me for not having been there as I had promised. That you will think I failed you. That I didn’t have the courage. I have imagined you so many times alone on that train convinced that I had betrayed you. Many times I tried to find you through <PERSON> but he told me that you didn’t want to have anything more to do with me. What lies did they tell you <PERSON>? What did they say about me? Why did you believe them? Now I know I have already lost you. I have lost everything. Even so, I can’t let you go forever and allow you to forget me without letting you know that I don’t bear you any grudge. That I knew it from the start, I knew that I was going to loose you and that you would never see in me what I see in you. I want you to know that I loved you from the very first day, and that I still love you now more than ever, even if you don’t want me to.
I am writing to you in secret without anyone knowing. 427