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Quote #1
Yet there was a time in her life, at the end of 1916 or so, when at a summer resort near the family estate there was no schoolboy who did not plan to shoot himself because of her, there was no university student who would not… (4)
What do you think the narrator is trying to tell us about Olga's affect on the boys around her? How would you finish this sentence?
Quote #2
In a word, there had been a special magic about her, which, had it lasted, would have caused… would have wreaked… (4)
Notice that the narrator says "had it lasted." Had what lasted? Later the narrator tells us that Olga keeps her beauty even into her 30s, so what's this "magic" he's talking about?
Quote #3
But somehow, nothing came of it. Things failed to develop, or else happened to no purpose. There were flowers that she was too lazy to put in a vase, there were strolls in the twilight now with this one, now with another, followed by the blind alley of a kiss. (4)
Why do you think Olga's dates don't progress? This quote says that she was too lazy to put flowers in a vase, so do you think she just wasn't interested in these guys?