IV

Composition had been determined upon, and the sketch completed bythe middle of August; Cecile had sat for him every day from nineuntil five; every evening they had dined together at the seashore orother suburban and cool resorts. Together they had seen every summerentertainment in town, had spent the cooler, starlit eveningstogether inside his studio, chatting, reading loud sometimes, sometimesdiscussing he work in arm or other subjects of he moment, eventopics covering a wider and more varied range than he had everbefore discussed with any woman.