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38.<br />
They smoked a last cigarette on their balcony.<br />
NICK<br />
Odd child, Coral. She told me this<br />
afternoon that she’d remembered<br />
lots of things she heard me say in<br />
India.<br />
SUSY<br />
Remember you’re here to write,<br />
dearest; it’s your duty not to let<br />
any one interfere with that. Why<br />
shouldn’t we tell them we’re just<br />
leaving!<br />
NICK<br />
I thought at the time that she<br />
cared only for caramels and<br />
picture-puzzles, but it seems she<br />
was listening to everything, and<br />
reading all the books she could lay<br />
her hands on; and she got so bitten<br />
with Oriental archaeology that she<br />
took a course last year at Bryn<br />
Mawr. She means to go to Baghdad<br />
next spring, and back by the<br />
Persian plateau and Turkestan.<br />
Susy laughed luxuriously.<br />
She was sitting with her hand in Nick’s, while the late<br />
moon-theirs again-rounded its orange-colored glory above the<br />
belfry of San Giorgio.<br />
SUSY<br />
(murmured)<br />
Poor Coral! How dreary-<br />
NICK<br />
Dreary? Why? A trip like that is<br />
about as well worth doing as<br />
anything I know.<br />
SUSY<br />
Oh, I meant: dreary to do it<br />
without you or me.<br />
She murmured her assent and stood up, stretching her sleepy<br />
arm above her shoulders.
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