She leaned her face forward again, and again he kissed her and then she rose to go.
"Where are you staying?" he asked, and she told him. It was in a fashionable apartment-house on the edge of the Green Park.
"Does Finsen live there also?"
"Well, yes, he lives in the same building. And you must live there, too. I shall want to see you constantly. There are a thousand things I want you to do for me. But now I must be off."
He could not let her go, and they renewed their caresses. "It will seem like a dream when you are gone," he said. "I shall hardly be able to believe you have been here, or that you will ever come back again."
"Don't say that. I told you in Iceland that I should come to you if you didn't come to me, and I've kept my word, haven't I?"
"My dear, dear Helga!"
"It wasn't quite good of you to go away without giving me an opportunity of seeing you again."
"I know, I know!"
"You had a certain duty to me, you know, after what had passed----"