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(1921) Author: Sigrid Undset
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fortnight — her heart cold to all the beauty around her, and
melancholy and discouraged because it did not warm her as before.

One morning she went to Rome. The ground was white
with frost all the way down through Toscana; in the middle of
the day the frosty mist lifted and the sun shone — and she saw
again a spot she had never forgotten: the lake of Trasimene
lying pale blue, surrounded by the mountains. A point of land
projected into the water, with towers and pinnacles of a small
stone-grey town, with a cypress avenue leading from the station.

She arrived at Rome in pouring rain. Gunnar was on the
platform to meet her, and he squeezed her hands as he wished
her welcome. He went on talking and laughing all the time as
they drove from the station to the quarters he had engaged for
her, the rain splashing against the cab from the grey sky and
from the street paving.

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Heggen was sitting at the outer side of the marble
table, taking no part in the conversation; now and
then he cast a glance at Jenny, who sat pressed into
the corner, with a whisky and soda before her. She was
chatting very merrily with a young Swedish lady across the
table, without taking the slightest notice of her neighbours, Dr.
Broager and the little Danish artist Loulou Schulin, who both
tried to draw her attention. Heggen saw that she had had too
much to drink again. A company of Scandinavians and a
couple of Germans had met in a wine shop, and were finishing
the night in the inmost corner of a somewhat dingy café. They
were all of them more or less affected by what they had drunk,
and very much opposed to the request of the landlord that they
should leave, as it was past time for locking up and he would
be fined two hundred lire.

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