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determined eyes, her dark silhouette in the doorway and a parcel wrapped in
white paper.
'" I'd see you out, but I don't trust myself to come back alone, I'm
afraid."
'" Don't be afraid. Just wait a few hours. I'll be back tomorrow
morning."
'Those were the last words that I heard her say.
'Sshh! ' The patient suddenly interrupted himself and raised Ms
finger. ' It's a restless moonlit night.' He disappeared on to the balcony.
Ivan heard the sound of wheels along the corridor, there was a faint groan
or cry.
When all was quiet again, the visitor came back and reported that a
patient had been put into room No. 120, a man who kept asking for his head
back. Both men relapsed into anxious silence for a while, but soon resumed
their interrupted talk. The visitor had just opened his mouth but the night,
as he had said, was a restless one : voices were heard in the corridor and
the visitor began to whisper into Ivan's ear so softly that only the poet
could hear what he was saying, with the exception of the first sentence
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