:09:04
Then the doctor left
and the ward nurse came in.
:09:09
She said I should eat,
but I wasn't hungry.
:09:13
The smell was making me sick.
:09:18
Leonardo dozed off
:09:21
then woke up and asked me
to go out of the room.
:09:27
He rang for the night nurse
and she came in with a shot.
:09:33
A minute or two later
she came out and said
:09:39
Leonardo was dead.
:09:46
I sat with him all night.
:09:49
He had been my
friend for 1 8 years.
:09:52
We had lived together for thirteen
and had never had an angry word.
:09:59
For two years he had known he was
ill and that there was no hope.
:10:04
As often as I could I went to
see him at his villa near Naples.
:10:09
He was kind and thoughtful
and happy about my success.
:10:15
We talked and joked
and played chamber music.
:10:21
He hardly ever spoke of his illness
and he wouldn't have liked me to ask.