one o'clock in the morning
The next morning he would leave the hotel , with all his baggage , and before sunset he would be sailing the open sea . He ate outside of the _ albergo _ , and he passed the night elbowing women in cabarets where an insipid variety show served as a pretext to disguise the baser object . The recollection of Freya , fresh-looking and gay , kept rising between him and those painted mouths every time that they smiled upon him , trying to attract his attention . At one o'clock in the morning he went up the hotel stairway , surprised at seeing a ray of light underneath the door of his room . He entered ... . She was awaiting him -- reading , tranquil and smiling . Her face , refreshed and retouched with juvenile color , did not show the slightest trace of the morning 's spasmodic outbreak .