“Do you want me to give you up, Oskar?”
He does not answer.
“To see you go away with the rest, and to think no more about you?”
Still he does not answer.
“Do you?”
“God knows I don’t,” he says, and at the next moment he is gone.
TWELFTH CHAPTER
Three nights later Oskar comes again. As usual he will not enter the house, so she has to stand at the door to speak to him. His eyes are bright and he is eager and excited.