No! no! he no longer loved her! He no longer desired her! He rose and went away without uttering a word.
At the end of the street he turned back, leaned against her door, and called—
"Margherita!"
But the door remained shut.
[23]A local expression meaning, "nothing but what I wear."
[IX]
"September 20th. Midnight.
"Your behaviour last night has finally revealed your character. I should suppose it needless to declare that all is over between us, were it not that you take my silence for a sign of humiliating expectancy. Good-bye, then, for ever.
M."
"P.S. I wish my letters returned, and I'll send you yours."