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20 INT. NICK’S BEDROOM -DAY 20
She found it empty, and a line on his dressing table
informed her that he had gone out to send a telegram.
NARRATOR
It was a trifling enough sign, but
it had remained in Susy’s mind:
that first morning in Venice Nick
had gone out without first coming
in to see her. It was lover-like,
and even boyish, of him to think it
necessary to explain his absence;
but why had he not simply come in
and told her! She instinctively
connected the little fact with the
shade of preoccupation she had
noticed on his face the night
before, when she had gone to his
room and found him absorbed in
letter.
21 INT. SUSY’S BEDROOM - DAY 21
While she dressed she had continued to wonder what was in
the letter, and whether the telegram he had hurried out to
send was an answer to it.
NARRATOR
At the palazzo in Venice, her
present bliss was as complete as
ever, but it was ringed by the
perpetual menace of all she knew
she was hiding from Nick, and of
all she suspected him of hiding
from her.
22 EXT. VENICE PALACE BALCONY - DAY 22
Susy noticed a gondola turning its prow toward the steps
below the balcony.
NARRATOR
A day’s experience of the Palazzo
Vanderlyn had convinced Susy of the
impossibility of deserting
Clarissa. Susy was thinking of
these things, and of the
approaching date of Ellie
Vanderlyn’s return, and of the
searching truths she was storing up
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