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but I am so bewildered and frightened. If I were well, I
could work, work — always. And I’d be so good and nice —
you don’t know how good I could be. I know I am not
always good. I give in to every mood when I feel as I do at
present. I am going to stop it, if only you will love me, all of
you, but you especially. Let us ask that Gram here. Next
time I see him I’ll be so nice and sweet to him, you see. We’ll
ask him here and take him out, and I will do anything to amuse
him. Do you hear, Jenny? Are you pleased with me now?”
“Yes, Cesca dear.”
“Gunnar does not think I can be serious,” she said
pensively.
“Oh yes, he does; he only thinks you are very childish.
You know what he thinks of your work. Don’t you remember
what he said in Paris about your energy and your talent?
Great and original, he said. He did not think lightly of you
that time.”
“Gunnar is a nice boy, but he was angry with me because
of Douglas.”
“Any man would have been angry with you. I was, too.”
Francesca sighed and sat quiet an instant. “How did you
get rid of Gram? I thought you would never be able to shake
that fellow off. I thought that he would come home with you
and sleep here on the sofa.”
Jenny laughed. “Oh no! He went with me to the Aventine
and had breakfast; then he went home. I rather like him, you
know.”
“Dio mio! Jenny, you are abnormally good. Have you
not got enough to mother already, with us? Or have you fallen
in love with him?”
Jenny laughed again. “I don’t think there is much chance
for me. I suppose he will fall in love with you, like the rest,
if you are not careful.”
“They all do, it seems — Heaven only knows why. But
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