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(1921) Author: Sigrid Undset
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He sat looking at her.

“I know what you mean,” he said at last. “Other women
have thought as you, but when one has been gliding downward
for a time one ceases to care about where to stop, as you call
it.” Stepping down from the wall, he went towards her and
took her hand:

“Jenny, you will stop now, will you not?”

She rose, smiling:

“For the present, anyway. I think I am cured for a long
time of that sort of thing.” She shook his hand firmly:
“Good-night; I’ll sit for you in the morning,” she said, going
down the stairs.

“All right, thanks.”

He remained on the roof for some time smoking, shivering
a little, and thinking, before going down to his room.

IX



Next day she sat to him after lunch until it grew
dark; in the rests, they exchanged some insignificant
words while he went on painting the background or
washed his brushes.

“There,” he said, putting down the palette and tidying up
his paint-box. “That will do for today.”

She came to look at the picture.

“The black is good, don’t you think?”

“Yes,” she said. “I think it is very effective.”

He looked at his watch:

“It is almost time to go out and get something to eat — shall
we dine together?”

“All right. Will you wait for me while I put on my
things?”

A moment later when he knocked at her door she was ready,
standing before the glass to fasten her hat.

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