271 (Jenny)

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— you know that. I mean to try and work again, even if the
result is poor in the beginning. I have always the comfort of
knowing that one need not live longer than one cares to.”

She put on her hat again, finding a veil for her tear-stained
face:

“Let us go and have something to eat — you must be starving
by this time — it is very late.”

Gunnar Heggen blushed all over his face. Now she mentioned
it, he felt awfully hungry, and was ashamed of himself
for admitting it at such a moment as this. He dried the tears
from his wet, hot cheeks and took his hat from the table.

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By tacit agreement they passed the restaurant where they
usually had their meals and where there were always a
number of their countrymen, and, continuing their way
in the twilight towards the Tiber, they crossed the bridge into
the old Borgo quarters. In a corner by the Piazza San Pietro
there was a small trattoria where they had dined after going to
the Vatican, and they went there.

They ate in silence. When she had finished Jenny lit a
cigarette, and sat sipping her claret and rubbing her fingers
with the fragrant tangerine peel. Heggen smoked, staring in
front of him. They were almost alone in the place.

“Would you like to read a letter I got from Cesca the other
day?” asked Jenny suddenly.

“Yes. I saw there was a letter for you from her — from
Stockholm, is it not?”

“Yes; they are back there and going to stay the winter.”
Jenny took the letter out of her bag and handed it to him.

“Dear, Sweet Jenny Mine, — You must not be angry

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