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VI
Helge Gram liked his lodgings by the Ripetta. It
seemed easy to do good work at the little table by the
window that looked out on the yard with washing and
flower-pots on the balconies. The people opposite had two
children — a boy and a girl about six and seven. When they
came out on their balcony they nodded and waved to him, and
he waved back. Lately he had taken to greeting their mother
too, and his nodding acquaintance with these people made him
feel more at home in the place. Cesca’s vase stood in front of
him; he kept it always filled with fresh flowers. Signora Papi
was quick at understanding his Italian. It was because she
had had Danish lodgers, Cesca said — Danes can never learn
foreign languages.
Whenever some errand brought the signora to his room she
always stayed a long while chatting by the door. Mostly about his
cousin, “che bella,” said Signora Papi. Once Miss Jahrman
had paid him a visit alone and once she came with Miss Winge,
each time to invite him to tea. When Signora Papi at last
discovered that she prevented him from working, she broke off
the conversation and left. Helge leaned back in his chair,
resting his neck on his folded hands. He thought of his room
at home, beside the kitchen, where he could hear his mother
and sister talking about him, being anxious about him or
disapproving of him. He heard every word, as probably they
meant him to do. Every day out here was a precious gift. He
had peace at last and could work, work.
He spent the afternoons in libraries and museums. As often
as he could do so without inflicting his company too much upon
them, he went to late tea with the two girl artists at Via
Vantaggio. As a rule they were both in; sometimes there were
other visitors. Heggen and Ahlin were nearly always there.
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