1 CE SARE AND THe
CHHES /


CESARE.
desaneagasaea: sa tagadarkehearadgddcearedgddcoga
ehine
dutk
Cesare was a slim; good-looking young. man with black haif
and a delicate, slightiy vurved nose. He was quitel tall, end
moved softly and lightly. I used to see him in a trattoria tere
Caiuse in-0id-itome, usually with af Amertoan woman of Busstian origin.
He would smile towards our tablé most politely, with a little
nod of his head. It was impossible to imagine him jdoing any-
thing abrupt or harsha or saying-unikind things esv In everything
he seemed delicate and thoughtful, and a: tet Le l zsubmissive, fos.
(e-lacked the boutniful, rather plump-fleshéd ease of so many ) Romau,
Italians, and thet At blind; staring qualityoas if the world
> moved round them) end-their-umourbed-weyors Far from being
ilat
blind or, lost in his sens es ( he-gemeatheadmgmeas toncefabedng hee
seemed *Englese", in the Italian sense of the word, 9s formal
andetifi. In fact, I often wondered whether he was wholly
Italian, and wthere-perhaps heteamef dud
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northernmost parti near the Alps; se hat presented more.
the-Nerthern conséiousness than the-Itelienr> But he told me
J laly one day, when I asked him, that. he was Romaneborn ahd bred'
His father had several shope in the fashionablesshopping streets,
ardWas quite well-off. Cesaret wasn't in fact a very young man. (nifp.
yon
He was in his early forties. But he gave the
impression of
adl r a youthful delicacy and shyness. I remember wheny he. told me
that during the war, after the ArmisticeAbetween the western
allies and the newly formed It&lian government, he had walked
PUESNE
from, one side of Italy to'the other, mostly along/mountain paths,
withho money, how this image I had of hingas/Iocent of ail (remp
harshness and. shyly withdrawn from the
was sustained by
lenter Matlo his description, indeed-eneeureged, so.that tofier saw him as a kind
lof romanticwanderer for a moment, his uniforin rags (he had
plen been anofficer), ha tless, but still smooth-or skiny'strangely A'
clean and beautiful, not sweating... HR
He and the Rufectah-born woman always sat in a corner of theke
trattoria, quietly, sometimes nevef"addressing each other, and
they rarely joinedu another party. I took them for a married
à y couple who bant-got/bored and irritated with each other. But
then someone told
weren't married; and a little later le
e C 1, they invited meZup
their flat. It was an awkward, cold-
Branez
looking place---just two rooms'. Thes Apperentiy-te wa a aretit eer,
mes 1V and-muchrof-the-rorof-the-ro-om set out to be artistic, with rather useless M takon
beams here and there, and a bookcase sticking out into the middle athernn
with a settee in front of it, all jagged and devised, without augseu - 1
thet dressistible warmt and perfect-naturelnessof realart iinacy
l The Russian-born weoman was a pale, tery thin creature with a
rat*er cracked voice, and she spoke in pilaned, pretentious
sentences, trying,to use big words_and to convey very complicated
ideas. I couldn't concentrate on anything she said, and had
afeeling of waste andssterility tetime. She wojld talk.
about books, or pictures, or th'e latest film, and everything
seemed syphoned through a dnsty brain. The things she talked
about didn't seenmde-out-ef lifes or fer people, but to heve
ate
semethin withk Vtechnique or performance or style or machinery of
amh cea
some kind. Her sentences were all jagged and disturbed like the


len heca Ae Le
Ite lenrines
alive - L
Sno nly gayed erl Ceser
Lm G didace, L L - -
Rola face na keiig L
mype
-kides
dolicl -
ergroz
havlen
stiL arol h zina t - h thi ruo kua
a2 nlol hee - - Cere le leaue hie :
and Mio kacliine
Iminy wa the ben 3 us 7 donilis sztstung
O lis ble, as i med Laue. hen 6 lesite tre "s,
- 4s L
ulamnim
liued vi aud Hhe tko
pre ha kin 3 ull.
Se fael un reguistt pue - es
him hite
>ku dicii Slare a
lirenta to poot
sugribleren cakuo nn tho te
Lov Raj wiie almos. holiles wra Tayle, elentbe
6 U tron loue
d religniaer nll pnu
She
C L ttiip
Aid lh à Jh
hii, li tie:
Sresped
lied i L
delua
-i llnsian tamm -
alwas
LL ttey wrre H: +Lg A
iske ta.ppl
0 - lans Jard beturea
Hke
Siltet
Hoe
geckcain
reliy tous lorhped 5
Ia Arue k temn ith Li Nn.
tke Okrs aecaute unare
La id
Cesaree Lad € urtel k Le a puen nu,
buss sin -
with a
ap jeeltia
Bace
deuurvely
Lod stood iu : 2


hois
L ciunous
le 0
Rustim Uby
De Jeelued lc know u ghuie Le him,
wsz, L
Je he taner Le loshed like A clircd L L
sheo
Appaseilly. S2 kuen hsrh Li,
wiue,
A eperac.
Le Id bee diiorel once - sfenad nece. Are 2o Joolad
h Kllec ar en cye clpedic kuouicles alue hin, ci te hine
mip W uf i L punedn luaceie sJargmy, whiia he
heg w has hot dinuse taylu L Liiseep.
Breu Le ne
W Ca, uwas. ne *Lewed ls puoew hie, id prph Laid te
te hure wesr h dey nitoue mitie ) L.
Yer he neslil
Mcrale, - lientoi 2 t es ko kr, L dzrewat Li hode uf LL
dingrau
je 3 h Lu 'ld' affni ie wG STel. IL Liole
Liu
hur
atp htte
tyut heep
au O lyte
lexlie
A He rapue rorn Le tuid A srive.
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lay Han eitt 2 Li manins .
ecl oh,
Abemalt scfurals - to
Mhnite cinlisalioui Hhur, , A wliile tkay ulee uentioll, tned
% Lohe
and diicusre, Los have
lue we
traciste,td
did.
Len Le ot Chice grifpesl hou,
dell,
prar
ield layhe L
feel pme h kle the Sr 2 langmes.
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legu, Aronal,
like A mav
Brslien;
kuelen,
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Jv we siv uele, - -
larmes.


m mll le
lilze room, and she kept referring to people being taextit 'sensitised"
to thingsor tunsensitised!, She said she had a 'high degree of
sensitisation to noise', méaning she heted the loud radios in the
courtyardtaxony day; butthaty she wasn't 'sensitised at ail to
human presence as. obstruction of the psyche', meaning she could
work with other. people in the room. And She spoke in a
breathless way as if she couldn't get sufficient moisture dinto :
her mouth and as-if she weretrying to whip a dead heart into
life again. All thp richne ess seemed to have gone out of her
- re gody: YmkxzkmxxatxxxragtexxgxxX*XaXEEY She had stràngely hollow
eyes/darker than the rest of her face, and she sat hunched up,
her shoulders angular, Art
totally hollow her chests
Malmogt
But I had heard that once. she was, A 'the most
Co me
beautifulne oman in
Romert She hadeome
durit
war with he Amerieen
e my as-seme-sertef Civilien behabi
6 Len-Officer, and she
had. stayed afterwardsr because she coulaheser forget that
eternai and magio quality often bestowed on a place by war---by
the preseneeround-of-deth, Nye hod
luied iu ital, du tLe
She talked to me about this. Stuyela affewnt s fovet he cib
'This was some city in the. war---t that' s why stayed---it's
never been the same since---I'm dértain it- wasn't like it. before,
either---all the streets seemed. different---"
I said I thought this was. the glow war often. put on place.
I'd spent two days in Rome during the wer, and the city lpla geen
then hed nothing to do with the city I knew now, -hadn't-boen
real, It had been a sort of glowing scene shere didn have
temake a deily-life. WHen I returned to Rome some years after
the war I hadn't recongised one-of the
sune And akt
the fabulous quality had gone," an"Rome streets = Which
jpite : diff.spell
She nodded and said, 'I guess I was looking for it to happen
again, but short of another war it wouldn't. Anyway, it s been
a gradual let-down. ever since---, and' she castf a slow, narrowed
look, so dusty, across at Cesare, who sat talking to anether_young
my wife, woman, his head back against: the settée in a way that gave him a
sweetand helpless feven frailglook.
said
I askeda when She'ged met him and she xatt teldme just after
l the war. Their W ork had become connedted, às hedwes on some altaat
atoht reewuraPscheme finaeed Proltfamerioa. They had worked for
months in the same office- 1 Then.. - a she added with a smile, and
shrugged her shoulders slowly.
There was a silence, and I iooked. across at him.
Conheeted uitk
'We're talking about you", I said.
'How you met each other'.
honglai
'Oh, yes', he answered, in English.) He-spoke-with aepecial
delieete serioueness, For a. mome int,;watching his face, I felt
rush of warm friendship towards him, for that Italian quality I
Zan come to recogniseg of a. certain clear-bright and dazzling, yet
reyslencis
shadowy, burning intelligence.Then it disappaeared, like a. brief
giddiness.
China
AEOAT
'I'd just come Back from Ameriea.'
Laish
'0h, 6 were t you in Amerieerichina Yale iu
I was two years at-Havord. Hmg Koup.
TYes:
foh, really? - Stedying arohiteotureg
jule
He paused for a momen U- --nothing seemed to take him unawares
or disturb his delicate calm---and thenhodded
gravelyze +
Wa saw them several times after that, brioflyj-end/they seemed.
tgogogme more muxepent-chore irritable with each other. Some-
times he would give her a cold,,level glance, or not answer a
question, and she would remain gatte undisturbed, as if being hi
rejected buhim . wasta plessuregboh-sren, She seemed to smile
inwardly, ànd she would talk on in a droning voice, endlessly,t dustily,
as if he weren't in the room. They looked too tired withxeaak
of-each eves other)to have a poal quarrel.


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often she would go away, for weeks on end, to Austria or
Switzerland, and he would eat in the trattoria alone. Then
llin
she went to America for many months, and he Arcesame Eatorested hoded
within another Woman.
magle A
24psgs
This other W oman was ategAmoestan, a
of a
indulgent,
lazy,
Arrnony wry and sensuous dispoisiton, with a' euditre handsome but nervous
face and childish, light-blue eyes which |she sometimes casté
down-in affected modesty and with the hint-of a smile, as if
she quietly approved of impropriety but/had to make alittle
facial gesture against it. She was separated from her husband prra
end.for-nearly four years had-had one man after ahother, sometimes.
falling in love, or saying she fell in love, and sometimes treat-
it as a raw sensuous adventure. t Andzalizthts tame She had
tizupazmtimttys firm, well-rounded hips and a full bosom, and
seemed to grow more senauous in body with each man.) She wasn 't
happy, and alrays said she wanted only to marry again and settle
down. Every new affair seemed. to her EREXER the most important
experience she'd ever had, and she always liked to talk about it
to her friends. Then aftera-msk-time- there would be an estrange-
-ment, she would have acrisis-and-look tired and ill, then there
iil
would be another man and the process would startnagain. She was
OHA
interested in a man most when he showed a-eertain indifference towards
her, but the moment he seemed to need her she cooled.
Cesare had known her for some years, *XX*XEX*XXGEIXRKEXEE
thaxfenxpaEprmpiaxtsxxaxe and must have heard about some of her
adventures. In the summer, When she went-tothe sear and got
brown, she Inaket -oeutd-look/inviting and volutptuousr A few
weeks after the
woman wen t toAmorinA
dbiag
Rueeien-borp
he asked her
to hare dinner with him--znot at the usual trattorief-- End they
were soon sleeping togethér d - Shehad shown-her miflingness-by
talking to him more than usuar ******X******X in the first
up ferdays after the Ruseian-t En gogen-had-left, It was alearto chiert
Syulks him that she was frees And Shertold people openly that she
was going to 'make a line for hin'
Sometimes he slept at her flat, ard sometimes she slept at
mbleh)
his, They had-dinner together almost every évening, and often
he took her to night-olubs. She would telephone him at his
office, and he would show impatience if she made an-appointmeny,
With-another man. All this wasAsecret. They never went to L
the usuar-trattoried and she never mentioned his name to her
'friends as she wotld normally mention the name of her/lover
He asked her not to give him publicity; as shelhad done with
other men. For one thing "there wasthe Bessten-bem woman,
Anar for another he had a certain position'to keep up, being older
tt 0 than most of the other men she bad khown.' As often at the
beginning. of-BZarfair, she was quiet and-demure, casting-dom
her eyesa lot and prever questioning aim, But gradually she
She
bint
began tohaye anxieties. Karxxka
gradually found-thet ae
a 1T ae
lrrisg
e-N was muehH
cam ort of person as shé was, He was mest int-
erested, in arwoman who felt cool towards him,had EXXEKEXTEX* L
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at' on èe felt the need to desert : Men if Sht showed tee-much au
warmth, Ladalso she began to find out that hefhad as many women
ml as shellid men. And he too had been married,81 A
was very
surpriséd to hear this, remembering ****XTEXEAX********E
maxx**xax him in the trattorial---for as-she began to find out
< - these things she. beganto gave, him publ-icity? Her usuat way
of giving a lover publicity was to ask a, friend for Tadvicef. L L
And Ibegan to hear-aboutceaare rom-one of these friends.
uce.
When she rang him up a great many'ti imes eveR day; or
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made a scene at his office, or waited outside the palazzo where
he lived to see if other women went in, he was brusque afà cold,
hovkle and todd her shewas vulgar, aad that he must have his freedom,
But-when she made-other appointments and stayed out the whole
cole night he would ring her flat eentinually and leave
messages with
the maid, and then shout at her furiously for being a 'whore'.
Sloty her body changed. tt-nsd-begun-to-de-se-even-before-her
period-of-enziety, Sshe lost the round, fleshy look in her hips,
and her chest began to look sunken. Her eyes took on a paler
and dimmer look, and her hair seemed more straggly. She began
to wear loose. dresses rether in the Twenties style, -ened no longer
the erotic, Kih fitting dresses she'Had always worn before
She spoke softly, and always seemed tired. - She lost aliserual
selqu 6
appeal whatsoever end lookea schoolmarmish. Reople began tosee
that thie-must-be + infl ttrence,
was very trange that the
Rusgian-born woman had also/been an attractive young weman,
Art he
that
Tare
Cernt
gave
Ampressiont of Helicately and clandestinely
exiting a woman, x net iving her adireet rebuet satisfaction.
e Stre had always been>iiroissistic, ando ould never quite forget
herself with a man. And
this
gow'
narcissism beclame desparate.
She-seemer-to-be-looki Tis a hersed al the time, but-more end-
orewith shamexaxt, AShe told hez ertedn Athat Cesare was always
hoorecting' her. - He cou,d ônly bear her to wear certain pale
colours, and thought most of her clothes 'crude'. Ard A didn 'tcomec
de-this in a oondemning wayo Heflattered a womer FOE - e8 FE
SHe made her little gifts, whiohze ther men simply wouldnt think.
of He had a way of 1Doking at a woman with a secrétly app-rec-.
iative warmth in his
if to tell her that he saw the goddees IE
in her, unlike most-of
other men. And
seemed to be
look-
2T0E
ing at her fecerand body al RE me in a marvellings as if to
say, 'But how strange you haven 't realised beforé---did you really
not know you had these Wonderful little, gifts---is it really true
Lld
thas no one told you about them betors... .?' And of course no
attratcive woman was cool to this. She began to feel under his goge
eyes that she could do nothigh that.wasn't dazzling and exquisite.
Thit coreection he gave her was apparently due to her falling,
ripti short of the exquisite image he had of her. She, knowing what
w te
spell-bound attention she had created at first, was of course
terrified of losing it, and wanted to: keep the image there. And
rtseia
bar
he used at as a kind of blackmail. She did everything he suggest-
Lene
ed. She rushed out and bought the hideous colours he liked best.
fn She even began reading the. books he liked,, especoially Proust. He
tuoy Are
told her that he was essentially Proustian; and-that there were Apol
X S as
certain vulgarities he couldn 't bear.
Alsohe was ancartist? A
And this explained his. delicate sensibility. She began to talk
le .
more' carefully, because he asked for wwit and
moretspiri itual
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kforms of conversation, And-tretaught- hér hon-to,tgat-nor-omphe kusr
Ne - body as a' shrine! [She told her friends that she'kad never had
an a man like him, that he was 'perfectly a #EEEE eltous in bed.
But she was human. Her other men had given her, in time, rounded
lei
hips and warm appetites. NOGO she rell short of being a
ly Kemy
Ali day, the more he criticised her and threw
his hands at
ahrine, atinado
horror at, some lyulgarity she felt the obsc enity of heving her un
W un
pody, andftalking as she Mdwithenot breatb, and of having lived
hitherto În a kind of fleshly slough, Then for a few moments
at night, when shewas in bed with him, she was a shrine again,
and sighed, eeushe'mad nev er dane beforé with a loversHe reetrnt's
Burt When/she showed how willing she was to do anything he
thought best, Gesgsd-booled and made other appointments. He told
Ay em 'her he had 'to work late at the office. Then_she phoned the'office A
and found he wasn't tat there.
a he was going to work at
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a ke
dog
When Lipes
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home! Then she found he didn't réturn
until
after
reborsovteice
midnight.) She didn't know he was going out with other
women. He always threw up his hands if she suggested it.
But several things happened to make it obvious.) Hextataxker
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naxxmntaxhexizktngxnexkingratxkamexaxkamaxalixtart He was seen at
a night club with a Nigerian woman, a
.striking Negress nigoan
smman with thick hips and a provauative, burning gaze. Still she
didn't believe it. He was so convincing when she saw him egain!
He would look at her as if to.say, 'And you, with all those gifts
stha
I've sooften told you
believe tirert I could be
interested in another ONONNMAN Ant, Being flattered,"her
staryed self-love-inspired again,. she promised not to spy on
bim Agatn, or doubt uis word. He would always say; 'Why
WS she dhases me, i she 'As in love wi th. me, og-Bonretising but I yes, know
mytastes! And he would lean back and smile at her lazily,
his eyes making a tiny dark sparkling movement, and put out his
hand in a gesture of compassion---imx compa'ssion for the other
woman. It was impossible not to believe him, especiallyif you
were inclined to believe that you were really a shrine;only
other men hadn't appreciated/che Tact, and-hed-despotted you/
Shuxpxeterxedr xtaxker Iax Inoshe called him a liar it dethroned
her as welll et dethronede his little compliments.
But at the same time she played her own litte ganë, too.
Whenever he seemed to be lying she made an appointment with another
Le man, and when/ Gee seemed really .cool towards her---meaning he
didn't even trouble to pay her compliments, but looked at
with
bitter disgust and said, 'My God, you look ghastly Zdatza de.mith
would stayout thetugnt. The spying became reciprocalg and obses -
sive. They eeeh. began to realise that the other was a parottadde
Auay
practised and ineorrigible liar, and that until now they had always
a day
been luoky to meet morally better people than. themselves. A
woman who knew them both; after listening to one of her
long
stppies about his lying and treachery, said with a smile 'Siete
fatti l'uno per l'altro' you are madé for each other,
They-began-to-live like man and wife, out of mutual fear
more than anything else
He would-spent seme nights-at her glat,
end she some nights at his. They agreed to try 'an experimental
period of marriage.', to see how far they were really compatible.
but-tho-strugcievstibl-menikl-nentOn-ihen-he-begen-to.toke-her-for
granted,- -she- took-counter-measuresy and-wh.en-she-reaned-on-him
too-much he withdrew They
-xept-eachr-ottehr-utterks-sttenfion by
EEXXERXITETE*matixamtxxatentitimxr-blackmail and-retaltatx
strategy. AmpettmexxtXXEREEXXExxanxdxxpendxEIdEEIEng thexTxexdIHE
XEXTEXTEad But-the-zam struggle_went on: They tept-esch-othor's
attention-by blackmail and s trategy: She started tosmoke a lev,
heavily, which she'd never done before.) She-hed-alweys-been too
impatiently sensuous-- - greedy for thenext momentonefor 1ittle
pleasures, SShe wandered round all-day from friend to friend.. -
Her face was sallow and "drawn, and days at the sea made no
difference: Late one night she rang/p axfrtexiran - à frtedd
and told hisshe had to talk to S omeone, and would he come round
at once, otherwise she would throw herself out of the windows
T. fe said, no, hewas tired and had to. work the next day, bot rather
than throw herself out of the window why didn't she come round to
see him for a few minttes?' She said she couldn't because she had
a temperature; then rang off. I He began to get anxious and after
an hour rang her back. But she se'emed to have forgotten tetr the
conversation. She spoke lezily---Cesare had apples to her, she
lalked


fha Autad
wrmas,
said---and added a little curtly. that, shewas tired now and
to sleep.
Mubone onfciinn en dom China
TheRuegien-bern-women-born-women) then-dame back! Everybody expected
a crisis, but
her affair
SomaLer
apparently
with Cesare, which had/gone on
for over twelve years, was finished. She, and Number Two/had
always been friends, and they rema ined sof- They even breakfasted
together at Cesare's flat; after. he had gone to work, to the
astonishment. of his maid. They didn't.talk about him, but both
knew the other knew. Number Two rémainéd in sole possession.
But one morning, after spending the nigh t alone at her own flat,
she went to Cesare's 'just to check up', before the maid was due
to arrive. No one was there, but under the bed she found a camose
tissue-peper handkerchief, which she said only a woman, and
Chinese
probably
en-Americen woman, would carry about with her. Then she found
the Rugatan-born woman's toilet equipment---including EEXtrXXEp**
a pessary and contraceptive tablets---in the bathroom. This
wasn't necessarily a proof. of anything, because she knew the
Qther woman sometimes slept there, notbhaving found a place of '
her owh yet. And Cesare told her that his relation to her was
now that of abrother. Also it didn't seem likely that he would
want her now, she having lost her looks. But the contraceptive
apparatus worried her, and in the evening she tackled him about
it. He gave her a still gaze and thén said slowly and coolly,
'You are quite disgusting. I'never wish to see you again.'
She went home; and after an hour or so a taxi came with Cesare's
maid, bringing back ail her clothes and odd bel ongings. She at
once.retaliated by sending her maid with all hi's bel oggings. The
affair seemed closed, but after two days he rang her up and invited
her to dinner as if nothing had happened. The Expertmmtxt
period of the trial-marriage was overtand they were back at the
lover-stage, seeing each other only a few times aweek.
She spent the night with him again, at his flat; and next.
morning was just about to leave, after he had gone to the office,
when his maid called after her casually, 'You'll he here tomorrow
ke Hau 2
then?'b She turned and, sensing something, said with augequal
casualness, 'No, why?'
'Oh, it doésn't matter', the maid said, 'onlyAgnore
deceiughhe
said to buy enough bread for two tomorrow.'
Chnese bonean,
'For tomorrow' S breakfast?!
smA
The maid didn't seem to.realise what she had said, and
Number Two murmured; 'Oh, he might have made a mistake.
Then
she went home and decided to lay. ax' plan, and catch him out once
and for all.
bfp
She rang him in the evening because not doing so might have
roused his suspicions. He told her he was going to_work at home,
on something very important, and she said. she wouldn't disturb
him, and would go to bed early hérself. They spoke politely to
each other and agreed to see each other the following day, when
amel
the worst of his workwes over. Skexxtttx*atz She had the key
to his flat, an extra'one, and added, she would give tb him. the
next day.
retan wb)
She was very sleepy and had an early dinner, quite alone,
which was most unusual for her. She was, silent and tEXSRY
collected, without her usual XEXXOXX restless indecision:
Then she went to bed, at abouti nine o'clock, and set. the. . alarm for
two o'clock in the morning.. She went to sleep -at once and woke
up, perfectly clear and energetic, ev en before the alarm went offo
A She took a taxi across the river, and. dismissed it a hundred
metres or so before Cesare's palazzo. She did the rest on foot,


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keeping close to the massive stone buildingso on his-eideof
the-narrow street. She'd deliberately put on soft, low-heeled
shoes. There was no light from his window, but she knew he
took the preoaution of always buying thivk curtain- material.
She didn.'t take the lift up, in case the noise XEKEXKImXnE put
him on guard. Outside his door, on the fifth floor, she waited
and listened. There wasn't a sound, and no light showed under-
neath. She turned the kéy, and went in on tiptoe. There
was no moyement at all inside. She knew every carner of the flat
and needno light to go straight to the bedroom. The door was
open, as it always was at night, to.make a breeze from the window
of the sitting room. She:went swiftly into-ta-3E and waited
tkan
for her eyes to grow accustomed to the- dim light. There were
dosky
two people. Cesare was in his place; and the head next to him
was black, She walked closer: It was the Nigerian girl, aihh
1a4 C
kngg the sheets hugged up to her . nose! - They were both asleep.
She stepped forward to make sure it was really her---there might
be other. black-faced women he slept with---and knocked over a
big lamp at the side of the bed. It crashed down, and Cesare
Cat oncewoke upk She ran to-the door, but heltred seen her.
'Vatene via', he said in a.clear voice, 'e non fare una
scena.' L Go away and don't ma ke a sc enei
lke
doeti
He said it in an almost paternal'way---fimmls las if she were
someone-given-to-hyeterta, As it happened,it was the best tone
he could have takeng at-that-moment, It made her feel extuded
'and a wrong-doer. The Nigerian Weke and was sitting up,
blinking; Whtle-Number Two ran to the front door and-shoutedy Shoutr
ar de) 'Bugiato!' --liariat the top'of hér voice.
Now she knew. Apg she began to piece together all the
other lies he/ned told abontether Homeny and wondered if he
told the same Iies abbut her to them. XKEX After shelfad been
fhe nt
-back inherflat-for an hour she decided to ring the Nigerian
Lsoney
girl, whose number,she happened to know. Shé wasrat home,
and tidnit sound-eleepy. But still a doubt came Into Number
Two's mind, as to whether it really, had been her. For there
were other dark-faced women in Rome'; some of Whom Cesare knew.
Soshe said nothing and put the phone-down. On the other hand,
the Nigerian girl had/had time' to,get from Cesare S to her own
place. Cesare would pr obably have sent: her home*at once, knowing
that Number-Two had a key and might cause more trouble.
The following day she. went o theitzkin friend-rharhat Caha Gr
a d
ataxtinatnmamadexemmxamaxemtkexézerdrenhtekeranhtambogtatbra
towhom-she-hadtthreatened-suieide, Sho-usredTin-for adive, lme
advice. Should she ask the Nigerian girl point-blank whether
she 'd been sleeping with Cesare, or should she ask Cosaref-Hon
the other hand, if the Nigerian thought there was any doubt in
her mind she W ould at once say'no, and Cesare was in any: case
a liar. AThefriend told her to phone the Nigerian girl up and
ask, even casually, 'Did Cesare say anything about me last
night?' And if the other girl said, 'But we weren't together
last night' she' could easily reply, ioh, I'm S orry, I thought he
was going to have dinner with you. He said s amething of the
sort." It was rather at ingenious. plan; And it was effective.
The Nigerian girl asnwered at once, 'Of course he did!
What do you think?? When Number Two asked how long it had been
going on, she said, 'You'd better. ask him that, darling.' .
She left him alone that day; both at the office and at home,
Instead, she phoned the Nigerian girl aga in in the evening,
and told her wi th a rush how Cesare had been lying to her all
these months, and how, he had told her that she (the Nigerian


girl) had been chasing. him and X**X*****XIXXIEXXEXEX******in
seemed to be madly in love with him, The Nigerian girl laughed
coollly at this, XXdXEXNI- without rancour, as if to say, 'The
old rogue!! and then said, " He worried the life out of me. And
he's been doing so for months. He used to ring me gp all day."
Then she added, "He told- me. the same ablut you, He said he wasn 't
interested in you at all réally, but. you kept worrying him, and
he was afraid what you might do to yourself if he suddenly dropped
you'. They began to work on his character reciprocally. Evenings
were pieced together over Whichihe had lied either to one of them
or to both cof them, At the end the Nigerian girl said, n But in
any case he,wes-alweye impotent_-when-hewas with me We never
really made love, a à I don't know why he went on trying." But
Alernse people doubted this last piece, T itmatexhaTsxaeexatipppraxts
It didn't ring very true, first that Cesare would find the Nigerian
Thllry Ress
than Number
exciting
Twoad perhaps she was toe-zobusti-m
yo 2, and second thatuthe Nigerian girl would admit to another woman
that any man Was/ impotent with Her. But it was the. kind of story
Kw Number Two would make up to'show people that while Cesare deserted
her for another woman, he was still lerestetitty under her senuous
sway, and couldn't bring himself. to any degree of passion with
another womans also-becauser because he was
tiredt She-was quite
intelligent. Beth-she and Cese
sere err ed - the-thought
or petng dropped for-another- tove, They had
on the dropperss 5
AndHalf the struggle between them was a struggle Ha to get to
6e0
the finishing-post first; with another lover. He had
got there,
but hèr story correc tea matters a little,
It seemed to
Cexare
say he would never find another. shrine like herl body---though she
knew seoretiy that he had propably made all his women feel thtps Te
But onl the other hand it was possible-that the Nigerian
u . m
giri hadinol excitement for bim. : She yas new to Rome, and provoc-
ative, *x****nexxeniEXXXTEXE and his venity rather than his
may have been ecited. Shebecame quite well known among
Aopesntesy and journ alists, and her photograph was sometimes in
the magazines and newspap ers o She was colourful, andat his side
she was dedorativé. He-may"have imaginéd himself-
But on the qther hand it was possible that the Nigerian
girl had no excitement for him. She was new to Rome, and provo-
cative, and his vanity rather than his senses may have been excited.
She [became quite well-konwn x*x*x**** among the artists' and
journelists as a "colourful' personality, and at his side she Kouid
look-/hecorative and unusual.
He may: have imagined himself-as pinly
partoft a kindof Fleurs du Mal world, in/ nineteenth century
Paris; delicate, pale, désabusé, with his Idamé créole auz
charmes ignorés, the dandy of the Via del Çorso. But she was
bpoad-shouldered, tall, wi th massive breasts, and the image of
that sénsuous affront which he had destroyed in Number Two and
oluol perheps-tn the Rusefan-born Homen. Per haps it was true that
the moment t they were in bed he lost all passion, and apologised
to her. lAbove all he seemed to want to destroy all suggestion
of Mhat was-for-him peasant-1 tike---X*x*****xmtrfkeshyxtxe
imxdaimiaetgxtke sturdiness of body, loudness of voice, ribaldry,
grossness bf movement, slowness of maxemat, 6 - and in the Russian
born woman and Number Two he had substituted a frail, wasted
look, softness of voice, wit, elegance and bookish discoureer Tolk,
In italy it is impossible to exaggerate the closeness of the
peasant to the city. He still gives the tone to life. He is
still the majority. Hé swarms at the edge of the. city, and into
the city, giving even Rome a country air. Ànd the middle class,


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dsmlet 2


CESARE, AwD THE CHINESE
Cesaro wasa slim, good-looking young man with dark hair
and a dalicate, slightly durving none, He was quité tall, and
moved softly and lightly. : I used to see him in a trattoria,
i ueually with a woman of Chinese,origin. He would smile towerds
our table most politely, with a little nod of his head. It was
impossible to inagine him doing anything abrupt or harsh, In
everything he soemed delicate and thoughtful, and porhaps a bit
submissives He lacked the blind, staring quality of other Romans :
far from being lost , in his senses he seemed inglese, in the Italian
meaning of the worde--rather, cool and formal, In faot, I often
wondered if he was wholly Italian, énd if perhaps hè didn't coma
from the Véneto ar the Alps. But he told me.one day, when I asked
him, that he wac a Romen - born and bred'. His father was a big
lendlord and owned + several blooks of flate in Napléo and Palermo.
.Cesare wasn't. a véry yourg mans He weB in hie early forties.
But he geve the inpression of a southful ehyness and inseourity.
once
I remember when he - told men that, R
Ermistice
rec Itelian
in Hawar
Ser mant he 2 walked from one side of Italy to the otherk
mostiy along diffioult meuntain paths # with no money * Emmer
thitat image I already had of himas innocent of any harehnese,
and shyly withdrawn from the worid--emas eustained by his desoripe
kad
tion, as hej meant it to be perhaps, a0 thet I saw him agl kind of
romantio wanderer for a moment, his uniform in rags (hetd beon
en officer), hatlese, but still emooth and trim-looking; strangely
as tke Aest o8 us
beautiful, not sweating or hungry or irritated etanything
would be.
He and the Chinese women alweya sat in a eorner of the
trattoria, quietlys sometims never onde addressing each other;


and they rarely joined another party. I took them for a
married couple who were a bit bored with each other. But then
someone tola me that they weren't married. And a little. he
invited us up to hia flat. It was an awkward, oold-1ooking place-t
just to rooms s These Bet out to.be artistio. with uselesb
imitation-beams acrose the ceiling and.a bookoase sticking out in
- tho midale of the room mi th asettee in front of it, all jagged
- and devised, without any intimacy at all. The Chinese W dman was
a pele, thin creature with E oracked voices and she spoke in
pai niully complicated sentendee, trying to use big Words and oonvey
pretentious ideas. I oouldn't doncentrate on anything she said,
ànd had a feéling of aterility from her* She would talk about
books or pictures or the latest film, and éverything seemed
syphened - through a dusty breins The things she said.didn*t séem
to come from life ar people but to be connected with technique or
performance or style or machinery of some kinds Her sen tenc es
were.all jagged like his room, and she kept referring to people
as being *sensitieedt to thinge or *unsensitised', She said she
had a high degree of sensitieation to noisé, meaning she couldn't
stand the radio in the courtyard; she wasn't sensitised at all
to human presence as obstruction of the psyches meaning she oould
work with ather people in the rooms - the ap oke in a, bree thless
way all the time as if ahe caildn't get sufficient moistura into :
her mouth and was trying to whip. a.dead. heart into life againe
She had strangely hollow éyos with.only a réminiscence of the
Chinese in them, darker than the rest of her feoe; and'she sat
hunched ups hor shoulders anguler, hér chest caved ine, * Wort hoard
thêt sheta onoe boen one of the loveliest women in the dity, with
a plumps rioh body that made the Romns gape wherever she wenta
Shetd oome to Rome in tho war, * and had stayed afterwards * out. of
love for the city.,
She talked to me about this,


'It was some eity in. the warewwit's néver been the same
sindewsel'm sure it waentt like it before, eithor---the streets
seemed different-a',
I said I thought thie as the glow war put, on things 6
It made everything a glowing soene---the background of deathe
She. nodaed and said, 'I guess I was looking for 1t to'
happen again, but short of another war it wouldn'ts Anyway,
1tts boen a gradual let-down éver sindewen', and Bhe cast a slon,
narrowed look, so dusty and tired, across at Cesare, Who sat
talking to my wife, his héad back aga inat the settee in a way
that gave him.a helpless and even frail looka
I asked her when she'd met him and she said juet after the
mar-da long time ago nov (with another dusty sideglande at him) #
Their work had beo omo oonneoted: he was on. some trading scheme
that, involved Shanghai, where she was born. They*a warked for
months in the sama office---"then...". she added. with.a smile,
and shrugged hér shouldors alanly without adding anything.
There was a silenoe, and I looked across at hime
*Wetre talking about you," I Baid. 'How you mot.*
voh, yes* ho ansmered in Engl ish, with the same slight
Amorican accent as the Chinese Noman, For a moment, watohing 1
his face; I folt a ruch of friendehip towards him, for that
Italian quality I had come to recognise of a certain clear-bright
and dazzling yet nysterioue intelligende, Taen iti disappeared,
like a brief giddiness,
'I'a just come back from China',
'Oh, you were in China, too?t
: *Yes. For about two' yoarsa In Hong Konge*
*Really? You met Buwei there?t
Hé paused for a moment---nothing seemed to take him unawaros
or dieturh his deligate calme-sand then he nodded gravelys He


could as easily have met her an. the street in Naplos-w-I had a
audden improssion of him as a liars
In a ourious---perhaps castern-eeway the Chinese Woman
seemed to know. everything. ab out hims Sometimes he looked like
a chila at her side, Apparentlys she knew. both his wives well-s
hota boon divoroed onde and separated onoe. She even seemed to
dollect an endyolopadio knowladge about" him, all the time storing
it'up in her peculiar English raohine-panguiage, which he. may or t
noy not have taught her himself. He liked her to speek in Englieh,
we heard: Italian seomed vulgar' to him sonetimes, and ho knew
no Chinese. Even vhen she ras away from Rome she Beemed to be A
protéoting him still, end people said that he never went a day
without writing to her: evèn, that he hept a diary for herof
his most intimate adings, in symbol-langunge,
Yet ho souldn't. tolerate a mention of: her when she was
away. He soréwed his nose up slightly, with disgust* - It was
àn *olds arrair: stale, Yet it had proved itself stablée
It had lasted longér than eit thor of his merriages. A The two of
them seemed so separate from etch other---Hs the. root, in
religion and civilisation-w-that evên while they weré mutually
bored and disgusted they felt B ome fasci ination, holding them I -
togethere That was how it seeneds anyway---they neyer talked
abe out each other if they oould help its except to thon a. Zittle
aign of disgust. Perhaps tho felt proud to use the odd. language
he'd.taught her: it vas light ànd. timeless, like a. strange
westorn Buddhist. tongue---perhaps that was it; it wasn't ugly'
for her as. it was for us, sinde the language wasn't alive tor a
her in any casés
She gezed at Cesare from a distande, at his oorrupt, Roman
face making iys kindly or delicate or boyieh mask; according to
the needs of the moment (that is, what kind of woman there mastin


the room) # Perhaps the machine-langunge was the best- -way of
describing the péculiar machinery of his life, as it would have
been to describe his room, and the fake art he put on hie - walls*
she seemed to feel an exquisite power ofer him, but being Chinese
she had no taste for power in our sonse: thé wasn't deliberately
exéreising anything. He was Bimply an exquisite experience,
In fact, she relinguished vhatever power shè hed over him every
day, overy hour:. she grasped at nothing* Sho stayed in his
flat When ho wanted her to; left it when he. gave the worda
The stay might last a week, Bix. monthss hardly a day* They led
a strange life*
Iused to thinko them as two peopie sitting in the crazy
noemin's-land between tno religione, 80 gtipped by what lay on
i the other side of the frontier. than they never came to terms wibh
what lay on their own*: Ceeare had wanted. to be a priest: onces
but, as he saids demirely, with a. flattered glence downsarde,
'passion* had stood in his way *
we saw them several times after thats and - they' eeeméd to
get more.and more irritated with each other, Sometimes ! he gave
her a cold, level glance, or deliberately diantt ansmer a guéstion,
was
guite Calm.
and shey ali Lwaye tomeined undsoturbed, ab
tis rejocting her hee
- pleesure newa She seeméd to amile invèrely; and talked on in
her droning voice as if he weren't in the rooms They looked
too tired of each other even to have a quarrele
often she would go awey, for weeks on: énd, to Austria or
Switzerland for the cood mountains, and he Would eat in the tritte
oria alone, Then she went to China for many months, and he
started up with another women a


This new woman was a friend - of ours; she camo from Greede
and had a. lazy, self-indulgent, morbidly sensuous character, with
a handsome but hervous. face and childis sh, light-blue eyes which
she sometimes aast dow in atfected modesty, vith the hint, of a
mry Bmiles as if shè quietly approved of any impropréity but
douldn't tell you as_much. She was séparated from' her k*n*
: husbandy and for nearly four years now sho'd been going about with
one - man efter anothor, sometimes falling. in' love, or seying she +
fell in love, and sometimes treating it as a raw sensuous. adventure,
She hed firm, well-rounded. hips and a full bosom; and soened to
gror more sensuous in body with évéry man; until she mat Cesere.
Every new affair was always the moot important exporience
she'd éver had, and she liked.to give hér frionds all the details.
Then there would be an estrangement, a orisis during which sho
would look. tired and 111, than thore would be another man and hhe
prodess would start all over again, 3he was interested in,a. men
most, it. soemed, whén he was fed up with her, but the moment he
seemed to need her she cooledt
Actuaily she and Cesare. had known each. othor for some years,
- timate
but not. onfsnpet +
termse A fow weeks after the Chinese
woman left he asked her to dine with. himemenot at the usual
trattori@---and they were soon spending the:t night together at hie
flat. she had tola people openly that she, was going to tmake a
line for himt
Gometimes he slept at her flet, sometimes the slept at hise
They had dinner together almost évery evenings. and often he took
her to night-clubs. She would bpone him at his office, énd ho
would show inpatience if she had made an appointment with another
man, Then thèir affair auddenly became seorets They nevor went
to the usual trattoria and. for weeks she said nothing about. him.
He had asked her not to give hin-publicity, as sheta gievn it 80


genérously to the other mens For one thing. there was- tho
Chinese wonan,,, who mustntt hear of it, and then he had a oertain
position to koep up+ He. was shrewd enough to see that her pub4
licity wasn't always flattering.
As always at the béginning of an affair she wae demure and
girliai, casting her eyeb.down a lot and looking guietly---even.
thostrioally--ioppy, But gradually it was cleer that anxities
héa, started, The trouble, it seemed, Fas this: he was 8o muoh
like her, in his charaotor * He was most interested in a Woman .
whon she was,cooi to hiti, and NUPXEXTANTEEN deserted her when sho
mas varme MARXR His wivos, the said-wthe publioity-service was
starting up again---had mado the mietake of showing warnthe
And aleo she began to find out that heta quite as many women as
ho'a had nene I was Burpriced to hoar this, remembering him in
the Strattoria, 80 meék and retiring.
Her uualy. way of' giving E ran publicity wes to ask her:
friends for tadvicet. And she began to ask. us for advices
when she rang Ceeare up a great many timee in the.day, samé ti imes
once every three minutos for three hours or more-w-there was a
lazy persistence about. hermmor nade a sceno at his officé,i or
waited outeide the palazzo where he livedito see 1f other women
wént ins he was brusque and cold with her, and told. her notito
be *yulgar?, that he mist heve his freedome But When she made
other appointments and stayed out the whole night he W ould: ring
her flat repeatediy and leave messeges with the maid, and then
shout at her furiousiy for being a *whoret.:
I in
- Slowly her body.changed, She had lost the round, : rieshy
look in her hips and her chest began to look sunken, in. the
same, way as the Chinese woman's. Her eyes. took. on a paler.
and dimmer. look, and her hair seemed more straggly. - She bogen. n
to wear locse dresses in the Tewnties stylo, no longer the tight,


orotio, Roman drosses cheta worn before., She spoke -sortiys
always seened tired, She evert began to look.sohoolmarmish,
with fat, healthy nalking shoes . and buttoned blouses
She told us that Cesero wae always 'correcting* her. He
could only, bear her to wear dertain pale coloure, and thought most
of her alothes *orudet But he aidntt corredt her in a condemning
way: he made her little gifts whioh aubtly Buggested the correct-
ion he ras arters Ho. had a way of looking at a woman with a
secratly appreciative warmth in his oyes, she said, B8 if to teii
her that he saW some thing. in her that no other men had seens
HG secned to marvel at hor, to say, 'But how etrange you haven*t
redlised before---didn't you roally knor that you had all there
wonderful little gifts--is it really trué no one told you about
thom...?* And of course no attractive woran oould be cool to :
that. She began to feol under his gaze that she was deszling and
exquisite, especially if she folloved his direotions.
The gifts he attributed to Wonen: were alwaye exquisite---on
the 'epiritual's ide; and of dourse the Greek wenan. began to! rail
short of the images Knowing what spell-bound attention sheta
oreated at the beginning; she. was terrified to lose itj end' "it
had only been a step more for him to use it as blaokmail, even
supposing he hadn't designed it as blackmail from the beginning.
She aid everything he wanted. the rushed out and bought thej
hidecus 'artistic' oolours he suggested. She even began reeaing
the books he 11ked, eepecially Prouste He: told her thet he was
essentially *Proustian'; apparently, there, were oertain vulger-
ities he, couldn't bear, and what could be mure Proustiên. than
that? She begen to talk more carefully, as he asked for more
*spiritual* forms of convorsation.
She told hor friends that sheta hever had a van. like hims
precisely
Ho exhilarated and exoited her without
satisfying her: ')


sôme th ing like that. Her other men had given her rounded
hips and warm appetites, but she didn't appear to want this any
more. By being attractive, now, she fell short of being a
shrine. The more he criticsed her and threw up his hands at
some 'vulgarity' she'd committed, the more she felt the obscenity
of her own person and tried to correct it, as if she'd lived in
EXNTERRINI
a fleshly slough until
RmREXghaEtigxfieshigxeimugk
now. And the pleasure in this
was that the moment they were in darkness
together again, even if
it was only a few moments, she was a shrine
3 I
again.
was the
> - most tremendous boon her vanity had ever had.
But when she showed how willing she was to do anything he
thought best, he cooled and made other appointments. He told
her he had to work late at the office. She
Bhoned the office
S Y land found he wasn't there. Or he said he was going to work at
home ; and she found he didn't return home until after midnight
that day. She wasn't sure he was going out with other womem;
A he always threw up his hands if she suggested it. But several
things happened to make it obvious. He was seen at a night-
d J -
club with a woman from Bechunanaland, the wife of an official.
gushe was a striking woman with thick hips and a provocative,
3 burning gaze.b Still the Greek woman didn't believe it.
He was so convincing when she saw him again! He would look
& - - 2lat her as if to say, 'And you, with all those gifts I've told you
ab out, you really believe I could be seen out with her?' And,
being flattered again, the shrine came back into its own,
especially if they then spent the night together.
And she would promise not to spy on him or doubt his word.
He Would say,, *Why yes, she chases me, she's in love with me,
but I know my: tastes!' And he would lean back and smile at her
lazily, his eyes making a tiny dark sparkling movement, and put
out his hand in a gesture of compassi on- -compassion for the other


'woman, After all, if she calléd him a liar, she dethroned
herself as well---there 'was that to think ofs It dethroned every
littie compliment hetd madé::
But : at the same time she played her own game as' wells When-
ever he seemed to belying she made an appointment with another
'man, and when he seemed really cool to her---medning he didn't
èven. trouble to pay hér compliments, but looked at her with:1 bitter
disgust and said, 'My God, you 1bok ghastly tonightis--she would
stay away for a day or two.. The spying beoame rediporoal and
obsessive. They began to realise that the other was as praotised
and unsorupulous a liar as they themselves were. A Woman who knew
them both, after listening to one of'her long stories about his
lying and treachery, said with a smile, 'siete fatti l'uno per
l'altro'---you are made. for each other.
They began to live 11ke man and wife, out of mutual fear
more than anything else. : Hespent nights at her flat, and she
nights at his. Théy agreed to try 'an experimental period of
marriage' to sée how' far they. were really o ompatible. But the
blaokmail and strategy went ona She began smoking a: lot, which
Bhe'd never done before. She wandered round from friendto
friend. Hor face was sallow and drawn, ànd days' at the sea made
no différende. : Late one night she râng us up saying she had
to talk to someone, could we come rcund at once, otherwise she
would throw herself out of the w indow, I said; No, we were 1
tired and had to work the next day, but rather then throw herself
out of the window why didn't she come round to us for a few
minutes? She said she couldn't because she had a temperature,
and ràng off. I began to gét anxious and after a few minutes
rang her baok. But : she séemed to have forgotten our conversation.
She spoke lazily---Cesare 'had just talked to her; the said--and
she added a little curtly that she was tired now and wanted to-


sleepe.
Number One then' came back from China.' Everybody expected a
crisis; but apparently her affair with Cesare, whioh had g ane' : on
for twelve. years now, was at last over* Or so. it was' thoughts
But someone who knew her well pointed out that this had often
been thought before. Anyway, she and the Greek woman met and
found theytd known each other long bef ore, in a vague way.
They even breakfasted together at Cesare's flat,. aftér he'd gone
to work-nato the astonishment of his maid. They didn't talk
about him; but both knew the other knew. t. Number Two remained
in : sole poss session. Orso she thought. The Chinese woman had
nowhere to stay yet-ashe hadn't found a flat; and was cons trained
to sléep there, fixing up a divan in the sitting rooms,
One morning Number Two, after epénding the night at her own
flat, went to Cesare's 'just to eheck up', before i the.maid was
due to arrive. No one was there, but under thè bed ' she faind
a Chinese handkerchier, which she said only a woman, and + probably
a Chinese woman; would. oarry about wi th hér. Then she found
Number Onets toilet equipment-4-including a' pessary and contrae
ceptive tablets---in the bathroom. This wasn't necessarily a-
proof of anything but,-as she said, - it.went *a damned long way.*
But then Césere had told her that his' relation with Number One was
like that of a brother. - Also it didn't seem likely to the
Greek woman that he would want her now---after all, she had lost
Her looks. But the contraceptive apparatus woorried her, and in
the evening she tackled him about it. He gave her a still gaze
and then said slowly and coollys *Youtre quite disgusting.
I never wish to see you aga in.* She went home, and after an


hour or so arrived from Cesare's flat with all her belongings.
She at once retaliated by sending her maid with all his belong*
ings. The affair séemed closed, but after two days he rang her-up
and invited her to dinner as if nothing had happened. The périod
of the : trail-marriage was thus over, and they were back at the
lover-stage, seeing each other secretly a few. times a week." -
There: was the old thrill of seeming to.deceive the Chinesé woman.
As she said; it was better than the trial-marriage.
: She : spent one night with.him at his flat, when Number One was
in Torino for a few daye, ànd next marning she ' was just about to
leave, : after he'd gone to the office, when the maid oalled
after her dasually, *You'1l bé here tomorrow then?* : She turned
and sensing something said with equal casualness; "No, why?*
*Oh,-it doesn't matter,' the maid said, 'only il signore
sadd to buy enough bread for two tomorrow,
'For tomorrowts' breakfast?*
T: The maid didn't séem to realise what - she a: saidwsor
perhéps she . did. Number Two murmured, *Ohy hé might have made a
mistake : - Then she went home and. decided to lay a. plan, and
catoh him out oncé and for àll.
She phoned him in the evening bevause not doing 8o might i
have. aroused his supicions. - He told her'he was going to'work at
home, on something very impbrtant, and she said she wouidn't
disturb him,.and would go to bed early herself, They spoke
politély to éach other. and agreed to see each other the following
day, when the worst of his work would be over. - She hadethe koy
to his flat, an extra one, and added that she would return it to
him thé next day a
she was very sleepy and had an early dinner, quité alone,
which was unusual for her* She was silent and.collected, with-


out her usual restless indedision, Then she went to bed, at
about niné o'clock, and. set the alarm for two ofclock in the
morning a She went to sleep at once and woke up, perfeotly.clear
and enrgetic, even before the alarm went - off. She_took a taxi
across. the - river, and dismissed it a hundred metres or 8o: before
Cesaré's paiazzo. She. did the rest on foot,keeping closeto the
massi: ve. stone katkitng waiis in case he sam her from his windows.
She'd. put. on soft; low-heeled shoes. There was no: light, from his
window, but she knew he took the precaution of always buying
thick ourtain material, She didn't take the lift up; in case the
noise put. him on guarda Outisde his door, on the fifth floor,
she aited. and listened. !- There wasn't a sound, and. no. light sh owed
underneath. She turned the. key, and went in on, tiptoe, There
was no movement at. all inside.. She knew every oorner of the flat
and needed no light to go. straight to the bedroom, The' door was
open,as. it always was at night; to make a breeze from, the window
of the sitting rooma. - She went swiftly in and. wet ted for her eyes
to grow accustomed to the dim light. There were two. peoplees
Cesare was in. his place, and the head next to him was' darks A
In fact, it was blacks, She walked Brnsut oloser.. Was it/the
woman from Bechuanaland? She,stepped forward to, make sure it was
really hor-mot there might be other blako-faced women he' was int-
erested in-amand knocked oyer a big lamp at the : aide of, the bede
It crashed down, and-Cesare woke up at once's Shé ran to. the door,.
but he'd seen her:
'Vatene via," he said in a clear voide, 'ènon fare una
soena. & * Go away and. don't make a scene.
He said, it in a paternal way---firmly, like a, dootor order-
ing a prescription. As it happened it was the best tone he co ald
have adopted. * It made her feel ashemed--wdethroned and * deshrined.
The Bechuanaland lady---if it was the Bachuanaland ladyem-sat, up,


blinking, as Number Two ran: to. the. front, door shouting
'Bugiardot'---liart at the top. of her voice. :
Now. she knews. And she began to piede to: gether all the
other lies hetd told her, wondering if he told the same lies
about her to the other womens Aftèr she'd been back in her own
flat for .an hour .she deoided to ring thé Bechuenaland lady,at
her - home * Well, she was there, thought she might just have
come in:. she didn't sound sleepy. Had it been her after all?
There were other dark-faced women in Rome, and the bedroom kad
curtains had beën drawna, : So. she. said nothing and put the phone
down. - Yet the Bechuanaland lady had dertainly. had, time to
leave Cesarets flat and. reach home in a taxis : Or did she have
a car? . Cesare would probably: have.sent het. home at once, know ing
still
that Number. Two/had a key and might causé more trouble. So her
reflections-went on. a
The next : day she came to us. for *advice'. Should she ask
the Beohuanaland lady point-blank whether shé'd slept with him,
or should she ask Cesare himself? .On the other hand, if the.
Bechuanaland lady thought there was. any doubt in her mind she
would XEXXERTEEXS at onoe say no, and Cesare was in. any casé a
liar. So neither of those plans would do. Then she hit on some
thing else: she would phone the Bechuanaland lady and ask her :
casually, Did Cesare say anything about me last night?* And
if , the other woman said, 'But we weren 't together last night,'
she could easily.reply, *Oh, I'm sorrys I thought he. was going to
have dinner with you.t He said something of, the sort.": - It
was rather ingenious * And it was effective.
The Bechuanaland lady replied at oncé, 'of course: he didi
What - do you think?* When Number Two asked how long it had been
going on; she said, *You'd better. ask him that, darling.* -
She left. him alone that day, both at the office and at f


home. Instead shè phoned the Bechuanaland lady again in the
évening and told hér witha rush how Cesare had been lying to her
'all these months, and how he'd told her that she ' (thè Bechuanaland
lady) hadi been chasing him and seemed to be madly in love with
him; though she would never betrey her husband. # The Bechuanaland
lady laughed, coolly: at this; without randour, and said, : *Hè worried
the life-out of mé a* And hets been doing so for months. ( Ever
since his Chinese waman went away d - He used to ring me up every.
day +* : - Then she added, 'He told me the same about yous - - He sadd
he wasn't interested in you at all really, but you kept worryini
him, and he was afraid of what "you might do'to yourself if he
suddenly dropped you,*
: They began to vork on. his charaoter rediprocally. : Evenings
were pieced together over which he ' had lied éither to one of them
or tovboth of thems r. ** They even compared him as. a lovèr : and
same
reached. € the/conclusion; he *tried to satisfy many bedause he
never satisfied onés', a neat phrase. They found : the poor man*s
diary, which he kept'for the Chinese woman, listing hia. intimate
doings. They were certainly intimate, By hard work the two. I
women found the key to ths code he was using, to the strange
hieroglyphics: the diary carefully recorded thé women heraymety
those hetd:kissed and those he'd spent the night with, using
different symb ols for each stagés S méant successy. they dis
covered. : 2HU meant two unsucdessful hours; 2HUN meant'twos
unsucoessful hours with Natalie, the Greek woman; BX 3MSN meant
three successful minutes with: Natalie. How they found the key
nobody. knew: they said they did itby following his character as
they knew. it. They had put certain dates---one - 3MSCEE (C + méant
Cynthia, the Beohuanaland lady)---together and looked at their own
appointment books. 'His mistake was ' to use initials liké thaty)
Sometimes there was simply the 1 letter S, with the words che gioiat


written after it---how wonderfult And Natalie began to give
the book all the publicity she could,'
To solve matters, the Chinese woman moved baok to his flat:
completely: she answered all palls for him, and with inscrutable
taot laid false trails for him, telling poeple that he was away
from Rome when he was in his offide, and in his offige when he was
sitting at home. The Greek woman couldn't pénetrate thè Eastern
barrier she put round him, and gave up soon. Number One could
talk her machine-language again: the cohabitative urge which in
the frustrated égo dan bedome obsessive', a sly dig at Cesare,
this,
Again he was in the trattoria sitting miadly at:1 her side,
hardly saying a word, only giving hér a look of disgust now and
then.


erotic, Roman dresses she'd worn before. She spoke softly,
always seemed tired. She even began to look schoolmarmish, wearing
RADEA flat, healthy walking shoes and buttoned blouses.
She told us that Cesare was always 'correcting' her. He
tkall
could only bear her to wear certain pale colours, and thought ,most
werl
Andy
of her clothes, 'crude'. brodtans Rordeettozn 8 ordemadg
Barge he made her little gifts which subtly suggested the correct-
ion he was after. He had a way of looking at a W oman with a
secretly appreciative warmth in his eyes, stecsaide as if, belad
heronet he saw some thing in her that DD other men haantseen.
heuet
He seemed to adred-et/hearse say, 'But how strange you tRevenet
realised bef ore---didn't you really know that you had all these
Evriteptod little gifts---is it really true no one told you about
couldiv Gpush kkat
off.
And of course me attractive woman conti-ke-socdpto
thak She began to feel fagren laas a that she was dazzling and
tuk only
exquisite, espepseiny if she followed his directions.
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amen ves
course
Mat
try
hat
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created at the heginning,-she-Has terrified
Eed it 3 cus
one
tharthis fear
ktad only beera step more for him to usej% srblackmail, veven
(supposing he hadn't designed it as blackmail from the
beginning)o
And
(war Sm doue
everything he wanted. She rushed out and
pyl
She/aag
bought the
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hideous 'artistic' colourshe suggested. She een began reading
W un ( be
even
the books he liked, ospeetally Proust. He told her that he was
tkar 9
sur
essentially 'Proustian'; epperenta a Ey there were certain vulgar-
L ities he couldn't bear, and what could be more Proustian than
J Awy that? She began to talk more carefully, as he asked for more
spiritual' forms of conversation.
She told her friends that she'd never had a man like him.
sentty precisely
He exhilarated and excited her without ERT E a ]satisfying hero


Ome
Her other men had given her rounded -
hips. and warm. appetites, but she ' didn't Appeyso vant this any
more. By being attractives now, she féll short of being a
s she uased hey uttre ust.
shrine, L The more he oritio'sed her and threw up his hands at
some 'vulgarity' sheratoornttody the more 'she felt. the obsoenity
of her own person and tried to correct ito estshedadatedin
Meshty
S And the pleasure in this
was, that the moment they were in darkness together again, even if
it was only a few moments, i she was a shrine again. It was the
most tremendous boon her vanity had éver had.
fe momeul
reed,
fr kin
But when shé Shoned-howONZWAELAEg she wasy to do anything he
thoaght besty he cooled and made other appointments. He told
her he had to work late at the office. She Bhoned the office
and found he wasn't there. Or he said he was
to work at
going
got
home : and she found he aidn't return home until after midnight
<o P
that day. * She wasn't sure he was going out with other women;
l he always threw up his hands if she suggested it. But several
thi ings happened to make it obvious 6 He was seen,'at a night-
club with a woman from Bechuranalend, the wife of an official,
dark
She was a striking," woman with thick hips and a provocative,
she
burning gaze'.b Still the-areek-wamen didn't believe it.
He was so convincing when she saw. . him againt He would look
at her as if to say, 'And yoù, with all those gifts I've tola you
ARL
ab out, you really believe I could be seen out with her?* And,
being flattered again, the shrine.came baok into its. own,
espéoially if they then spent the night together.
And she would promise not to spy on him or doubt his word. -
He would say, 'Why yes, she chases me, she's in love. with me,
but I know my tastes t And he: would lean back and'smile at her
lazily, his eyes making a tiny dark sparkling movement; and put
out his hand in a gesture of compassion---compassion for the other