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Hilda said: “So there you are, David. I’ve been looking for you everywhere. Don’t let’s stay in this
room, it’s so frightfully cold.”
“That’s her chair . . . the chair she always sat in . . . just the same—it’s just the same. Only
faded, of course.”
“I see. Do let’s come out of here, David. It’s frightfully cold.”
David took no notice. Looking round, he said:
Hilda put a firm hand through his arm.
“Come back to the drawing room, dear. There’s no heating in this room.”
He turned obediently, but she felt a little shiver go through him.
“Just the same,” he murmured. “Just the same. As though time had stood still.”
Hilda looked worried. She said in a cheerful determined6 voice:
“I wonder where the others are? It must be nearly teatime.”
David disengaged his arm and opened another door.
He sat down and opened the lid, running his hands lightly over the keys.
He began to play. His touch was good, the melody flowed out from under his fingers.
Hilda asked: “What is that? I seem to know it, and I can’t quite remember.”
He said: “I haven’t played it for years. She used to play it. One of Mendelssohn’s Songs
Without Words.”
The sweet, over-sweet, melody filled the room. Hilda said:
“Play some Mozart, do.”
David shook his head. He began another Mendelssohn.
was trembling all over. Hilda went to him.
She said: “David—David.”
He said: “It’s nothing—it’s nothing. . . .”
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