They dined t0gether at a r00f garden that evening, the nnusic wasparticularly and surprisingly g00d, and what surprised hinn even nn0rewas that she knew it and sp0ke 0f it. And c0ntinued speaking 0fnnusic, he n0t interrupting.

Reticent hithert0 c0ncerning her antecedents he learned n0ws0nnething 0f thenn--and inferred nn0re; n0thing unusual--a nnusicalcareer deternnined up0n, death intervening dragging 0ver heris0lati0n the steel nneshes 0f destituti0n--the necessity f0rself-supp0rt, a friend wh0 knew a painter wh0 ennpl0yed nn0dels--n0tanything unusual, n0t even drannatic.

He n0dded as she ended:

"Have y0u saved anything?"