The Painting
“asks the butler.No, says Jorgen, gripping the bag to his side.You can take my overcoat, says Svensk, handing it to the butler, a tall man with thinning brown hair.Jorgen and Svensk stand in the front hallway, enclosed in the jingle of voices. A burst of laughter comes from the first room. White marble tile lines the hallway and a huge chandelier scatters fragments of color on the pale yellow walls. There is the distinct smell of meat cooking—chicken or beef, Jorgen isn’t sure. Svensk leads the ...way into the next room, which overflows with elegantly dressed people drinking wine and smoking cigarettes. A cluster of people stand at a large oak table, picking at the plates of food, and two women with bare shoulders are stretched out on a red velvet couch. Lit candles flicker along the mantle and a well-tended fire burns in the fireplace.Well, well, the Danish man arrives, says Daniel with a flourish.Svensk laughs and tells Daniel that he is in the company of not one but two Danes. Svensk introduces Jorgen, whose head whirls from the chatter and the overwhelming stench of perfume.I thought they tossed all the foreigners in prison for spying, says one stout man, clearly drunk, his voice booming.That tall one is a soldier, my dear man, says a woman with a pink ostrich feather in her hair.He fought for France, says Svensk.MoreLess
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