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output averaging ten pages a day, all dumped
on me. I stood it for a whole winter. When
spring came—these cases always get worse at
springtime—I told her silly mother that unless
she returned with Miss Frida from whence they
came, I would stop at nothing to have her locked
up. They were to leave for Germany in the
morning. I was awakened in the night by the
arrival of the fire brigade to the Piazza di Spagna,
the first floor of the Hôtel de l’Europe next door
was on fire. Miss Frida in her night-gown
spent the remainder of the night in my
sitting-room writing poetry in tearing spirits. She had
got what she wanted, they had to remain a whole
week in Rome for the police investigations and
the settlement of the damage, the fire having
broken out in their sitting-room. Miss Frida
had soaked a towel with petroleum, thrown it
in the piano and set it on fire.
One day as I was leaving my house I was
stopped at the door by a spanking-looking
American girl, the very picture of health, nothing
wrong with the nerves, this time, thank God.
I said she looked as if we might postpone the
consultation till to-morrow, I was in a hurry.
She said so was she, she said she had come to
Rome to see the Pope and Doctor Munthe who
had kept Aunt Sally out of mischief for a whole
year, a thing which no other doctor had
succeeded in doing. I offered her a very handsome
colour-print of Botticelli’s Primavera if she
would take her aunt back with her to America,
she said she would not hear of it if I offered her
the original. The aunt was not to be depended
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