ABSTRACT
Vilma had been married, against her will, at the age of fifteen, to a man more than twenty years older then she. She had three children in three years, Alice, Olga, and Ferenc. Exhausted by her three pregnancies, she became very ill with tuberculosis, and had to enter a sanatorium, leaving her children with her elder sister. There she met a man of her own age, Frederic Kovács, and they fell in love. She wanted a divorce, but her husband refused. Nevertheless, she left him, and thus was blamed for the separation. The children remained with their father, and Vilma had no right to see them. She refused to accept this and met them almost every day on their way home from school, to see and talk with them.
