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would look as if you were in half-mourning but for those pink
beads. It is very becoming, though.”
The dress was a dead white, with small black blossoms,
gathered all over and held at the waist by a black silk belt.
The straw hat in her lap was black, trimmed with black velvet
roses, and the pale pink crystal beads shone against the delicate
skin of her neck.
He bent forward to kiss her foot above the rounding of the
shoe, and, following with his fingers the delicate bend of her
instep in the thin stocking, grasped her ankle. She loosened
his hand gently and he seized hers, holding it, smiling, in a
firm grip. She smiled back at him and turned away her head.
“You are so quiet, Jenny. Is it the heat?”
“Yes,” she said, and then was silent again.
At a short distance from them, where the garden of a villa
reached down to the sea, some children were playing on a
landing-stage; a gramophone was singing sleepily inside the
house. Now and again the breeze brought the sound of music
from the band at the bathing establishment.
“Gert”—Jenny took hold of his hand suddenly—“when
I have been a short time with mamma and come back to town
again, I shall go.”
“Where?” He raised himself on his elbow. “Where do
you think of going?”
“To Berlin.” She felt her voice tremble as she spoke.
Gert looked into her face; neither of them spoke. At last
he said:
“When did you make up your mind to go?”
“You know it has been my intention all along to go abroad
again.”
“I know. But I mean how long have you been determined—when
did you decide to go so soon?”
“At Tegneby.”
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