The light in the green opaline lamp got brighter.
Mario smiled apologetically to the girl looking at him with heavy eyelids from her bed. He lifted on one leg the little round table that he had pushed by mistake and arranged the copper ashtray on it. How did it get in his way? He remembered it being somewhere else…
‘I’m sorry, Amanda. I woke you up. I didn’t want to switch on the light to avoid bothering you’.
‘You’re leaving already?’
‘I’m already late. Make a wish for the rain to have delayed the general to give me time to reach the Command before he does’.
Amanda propped herself up on one elbow.
‘You’ll go nowhere, if you don’t tell me her name, first’.
He side-glanced at the young lady as he was getting his jacket and hat from the hanger.
‘Who?’
‘The lady for whose sake you dr
