Individual reading. Part 4

After a while Stroeve left. He and narrator hadn't been meeting for a long time. Once after the narrator played chess with Mr. Strickland, Dirk Stroeve came to him with questions of what had happened during the game.Then the narrator learned of the quarrel between Strickland and Blanch. After that Blanch tried to commit suicide but she was sent to the hospital. Unfortunately after a while she died. Dirk Stroeve didn't believe what had happened. When he camу to the flat  where Blanch and Strickland lived he found  a portrait of his wife. After that he dicided to return it to Strickland but he didn't accept it. Dirk left France for a new life.