It said that its name was Nicola. He did not say its origin, and he did not speak on its familiar ones. Clarissa was very curious. Worse it was to have that if to raise early in the following one to go for the company. It was to sleep late and it was not accustomed.

Two days later it bound, it relutou and had finished leaving, more works of art, supper and nocturnal house, where tired it came back toward house, it is to decide businesses. One was diurne and another nocturnal one. Clarissa was invited to go in the end of week until Hampton to pass the end in the house of one of the directors of its company. Nicola did not accept therefore it worked the night. This age without a doubt a misfortune in the life of them. It was angry and was alone, to put did not have fun and saw that it was if becoming dependent of the telephone. At the beginning of the week it noticed that she was being without nervous puncture and. It bound and had always left the same program, gallery of arts, nocturnal house.

It always came back alone. In the week end it asked because it did not pass the day of sunday together in house of it. It did not accept but he accepted to go the night supper in house of it and was exactly when its parents had arrived. It was apreensiva, but she kept the invitation. It until if understood with the parents of it. In this night it left early. The father of it asked for familiar, the only thing that it wise person is that it was of the European east and owner of the most famous restaurant and the nocturnal house more stroke of a bell. The father of Clarissa tried to get more information to put the service of information empacou.

Clarissa was to occupy the apartment of its family in the Central Park where already the formed structure existed all and assumed the position and showed ability. Person of diurne habit did not costumava to leave the night. The staff of the company more took a life agitated and the married majority. Clarissa was invited one supper business-oriented in famous restaurant. In the reality they were businesses with Chinese. It said Mandarin, was a pleasant night and Clarissa impressed the Asians.

After supper one of the owners of restaurant was to compliment one of the Americans in the table and was presented for Clarissa that was not very made an impression. Two days after the Clarissa supper received flowers and the compliments from the young. Its assessor treated to be thankful. the days had been passing until the day where the Asians had come back toward plus a meeting, in the same restaurant, that if drew out until high hours. On this day Clarissa noticed the youngster of the flowers, saw that it was beautiful pleasant very. Young of indefinite age, pretty dark eyes and of for branqussima. Meeting was business-oriented and the young understood therefore did not come close itself to the table to compliment. In the following day when arriving in the company it found flowers and decided to be thankful.

It invited Clarissa supper in its restaurant, therefore it would be a special commemoration. Clarissa thanked and explained that he was ocupadssima. Two weeks after the invitation it bound again and it accepted. The invitation was for visiting famous gallery of arts. Clarissa used to advantage and acquired a workmanship of consecrated plastic artist and later them they had been for a nocturnal house stroke of a bell, that also was of it. They had been together hours and Clarissa counted part of its life, rare thing, therefore it always was introspective.

In the end of Nicola week it invited it for the house noitada after it. It accepted. They had left more early, it liveed in a very pretty apartment, without decoration, not to be a table of twenty and four places in the way of the room, all envidraada and encortinada, curtains of dark green velvet, furnished with an enormous table, and a sideboard and twenty and four chairs in the soil leaned in the wall. All the works of art. It ordered one supper of the restaurant of it, that he was delicious. After the supper they had given passing in the nocturnal house, was fast had returned for house. It finished sleeping there and the Nicolas explained for the first time that was its first time in everything.

In the room with dark curtains and a bed in the way it room and few furniture, without adornments, only more works of art in the soil. It was to the bathroom and she did not find the mirror. It asked where he could find a mirror, it he explained that it was the little time there and not yet he finished the decoration, therefore nothing of mirror. It woke up alone in the way of the night and saw that it did not sleep in house left, it to catch in sleep and came back toward its work. It was very worried. Nothing she happened.

It raised to drink water and she did not find the kitchen. She was dressed, if she arranged and she apanhou a taxi. She was to finish to sleep in its house and if feeling rejected. It bound in the way of the week, had left and the program already was routine, gallery, restaurant, It did not take Clarissa for the apartment of it. He asked for the first time to be in the one of it.

She arrived before the seven hours of the morning the gallery, was anxious for the exposition, even so she was certain of that everything was ready wanted to revise all the details, was perfeccionista and wise person not to delegate swims, had that to be in command. A little before the foreseen schedule first the guests had started to arrive, the done advertising were intense creating air of mystery around the new artist what it caused in fact a positive effect making with that all were aflitos at last to know the workmanship of so said painter. It was going everything very well, above even of the expectations of Charlote, even so same it did not admit, therefore it made question to even demonstrate that it had the control of everything, of the emotions. The gallery was repleta of artists, figures of the society, politicians, journalists, celebrities of some levels, a true success. it, paraded flaring for the corridors, dressed a long layer green moss with wall lamps of black embroiderings and the highest boots of long pipe, always in the classic style that gave air to it of much elegance. The guests oscillated between appreciating the screens and the beauty of Charlote that did not become of supplicated, accepting all the excused compliments it, however always keeping certain distance.

After one two hours of the beginning of the event appear one new figure, until then not seen in the environment, a high man of carefully combed black hair stops backwards, without nor a wire is of the place. It used tender black color, gray scarf around of the neck and a cane that only seemed accessory, therefore did not make look like to need its I assist for locomotion. Charlote did not notice the presence of the new guest, but it intently observed it to each movement and after some instants if he removed in the same way discrete that he arrived. To the end of the exposition, Charlote and Anne had been to verify the result next to the responsible one for the sales and had been surprised at the notice of the sales of all the pictures for an only purchaser who did not identify itself. The payment was made in money through a carrier with an only requirement, of that Charlote was personally to deliver the pictures in the end of the following day in the hotel that was housed.

Charlote was accustomed the eccentric purchasers, before Brazil already had been owner of the gallery in Paris, but never it had had a requirement as that one, relutou for one instant, but later yielded, did not find to be of good tone not to take care of to an order of a consumer so made use to invest in the market of the arts. When they had left the gallery, Charlote, Anne and Arnaud the painter of the pictures, had been supper and to drink a good French wine, after all the exposition had been a success, needed to commemorate. They had been in the restaurant until talking animadamente and nor had well late noticed that they were being observed for one gentleman seated in a table in the end of the hall. The day amanheceu sunny, without one alone cloud in the sky, nor of far was looked like the shady previous morning. Charlote to the first minutes already was in the sea if to delight with the coolness of the cold waters that received the rays from sun that they scratched out the form waves