After Rain
Harriet sat at a solitary table in the dining room of the Pensione Cesarina in Italy. She has come here alone because of a recently ended love affair. …
"Angular and thin, her dark hair cut short, her long face strikingly like the sharply chiselled faces of Modigliani, she passed out of her twenties a month ago. She is alone in the Pensione Cesarina because a love affair is over. A holiday was cancelled, there was an empty fortnight."