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“Do come if you can! Are you sleepy? Do you want me
to go now?”
“I am a little tired,” and, pulling Cesca’s head down, she
kissed her. “God bless you, darling.”
“Thank, you.” Cesca went across the floor on her bare feet;
at the door she turned, saying in a sad, childish voice: “I
do wish Lennart and I could be happy!”
IV
Gert and Jenny were walking side by side down the
windy path under ragged pines. He stopped to pick
some little wild strawberries, ran after her, and put
them in her mouth. She thanked him with a smile, and he
took her hand as they walked towards the sea that showed
glittering blue between the trees.
He looked bright and young in a light summer suit, the
panama hiding his hair completely. Jenny sat down near the
edge of the wood, Gert lying on the grass beside her in the
shade of big drooping birches.
It was scorching hot and still; the grassy slope by the water
was dried yellow. Over the point hung a blue metallic bar
of haze with white and smoke-yellow clouds in front. The
fjord was light blue, streaked with the currents, the sailing
boats lay still and white, and the smoke from the steamers hung
long in the air in grey strips. There was a slight swirl of
water round the pebbles, and the twigs of the birches moved
gently above their heads, dropping one or two leaves dried by
the heat.
One of them fell on her fair curly hair — she had taken off
her hat — and Gert removed it. Looking at it, he said:
“Queer how the rain keeps off this summer. You women are
much better off than we are, wearing such thin dresses. It
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