"We didn't do much on those long bright days," Sammy remarked.
"Done," Kate continued, "nothing. Lying in the sand and looking at the sea. But no matter, I could still do all sorts of things with the dictaphone, things I never did otherwise, unheard-of things, nothing stopping me. Before it was different, there you do the things that are prescribed, but here the new has to come and that may make you tired."
"Certainly, certainly," Sammy began in his eager way, "possibilities, of course possibilities, that's what the free man has, it doesn't matter if he does something, but nothing forces him, nothing pushes him, nothing binds him, what he does and doesn't do he does on his own responsibility and that can make tired, oh yes, that can make tired," and Sammy laughed a loud Ha! Ha! out to sea, "free people, free love, because that's the same, whether an old man in town told us something through his nose that we didn't understand, that doesn't bind. So free people, free love, free -" He stopped suddenly and asked, "Why are you laughing?"
Kate had bent her head back to look up at Sammy, and she was laughing. The thin, very red lines of the lips opened a little, letting the white of the little teeth shine through for a moment in the moonlight. Thus brightly illuminated, the face was very pretty with its childlike oval, the gray-blue eyes in which the moonlight put a strangely colored iridescence, and the light blond hair on which the wind tousled. Yes, Kate always had to laugh when Sammy said his big words, those words that sounded as if they had been in newspapers or boring books, but when Sammy said them, they took on something young, something alive, they sounded as if they tasted good to him when he hissed them out between his healthy white teeth.
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