"Why don't you sleep here with me? You never sleep."
And she forced me to lay my head on her pillow.
"Let us go to sleep!"
I pretended I was going to sleep, to set her a good example. But when I opened my eyes I encountered hers wide open and fixed on me.
"Well!" I cried. "What are you doing?"
"And you?" she replied.
In her eyes there was an expression of such tender goodness that I felt my heart melt. I extended my mouth and kissed her eyelids.
She wished to kiss me the same way. Then she repeated:
"Let us go to sleep now!"
Thus, a veil of oblivion sometimes descended over our misfortune.