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cle.
fannot I help you. You used to talk about your writings, when
worinMünich.
Gilb.
To be sure - as a matter of fact it was about my new book.
Cle.
Please go on. I know something of literature too now. Don't
I Margaret. Is it a naturalistic novel. or a symbolic one? or
a human document, or of a personal experience.
Gilb.
Well, after a fashion all novels are personal experiences.
Cle.
That’s very interesting.
Gilb.
Even in describinq Nero it is positively necessary that a man
should have set Rome on fire - - the inner man - -
cle.
of course
silb.
Whence else can hispiration come? Where look for models if not
amongst people we know.
Mag.
(still more uneasy)
Cle.
It is a city tho' that the model’s permission is so
asked. I really must say that if I were a woman I should de-