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Chapter 10 - In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway · In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

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  Chapter No. Ten. One hot evening in Milan. They carried him up
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  on to the roof and he could look out over the top of the town.
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  There were chimney swifts in the sky. After a while, it got
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  dark and the searchlights came out. The others went down and took the bottles
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  with them. He and Ag could hear them below on the balcony. Ag
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  sat on the bed. She was cool and fresh and the hot night.
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  Ag stayed on night duty for three months. They were glad to let her.
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  When they operated on him, she prepared him for the operating table,
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  and they had a joke about friend or enema. He went under the anesthetic,
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  holding tight on to himself so that he would not blab about anything during
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  the silly talky time. After he got on crutches, he used to take
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  the temperature so Ag would not have to get up from the bed. There
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  are only a few patients, and they all knew about it. They all
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  liked Hag. As he walked back along the halls, he thought of Ag
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  in his bed Before he went back to the front. They went into the
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  domo and prayed. It was dim and quiet. There were other people praying.
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  They wanted to get married, but there was not enough time for the
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  bands, and neither of them had birth certificates. They felt as though they
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  were married, but they wanted everyone to know about him and to make it
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  so they could not lose it. Ag wrote him many letters that he never
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  got until after the Armice. Fifteen came in a bunch, and he sort
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  at them by the dates and read them all straight through. They were about
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  the hospital, and about how much she loved him, and how it was
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  impossible to get along without him, and how terrible it was missing him at
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  night. After the armicice, they agreed he should go home to get a
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  job so they might be married. Ag would not come home until he had
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  a good job and could come to New York to meet her. Was understood
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  he would not drink any did not want to see his friends or anyone in
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  the States, only to get a job and be married. On the train
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  from Pandova to Milan, they quarreled about her not being willing to come home
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  at once. When they had to say good bye in the station at Pandova,
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  they kissed good bye but were not finished with quarrel. He felt sick
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  about saying goodbye like that. He went to americaan a boat from Genoa.
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  Ag went back to Torre da Mosta to open a hospital. It was lonely
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  in rainy there, and there was a battalion of our dity quartered in the
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  town. Living in the muddy, rainy town in the winter, the major
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  of the battalion made love to Agg, and she had never known a tarns
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  before, and finally wrote a letter to the States that theirs had been only
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  a boy and girl affair. She was sorry, and she knew he would
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  probably not be able to understand, but might some day forgive her and be
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  grateful to her. She expected, absolutely unexpectedly, to be married in the
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  spring. She loved him as always, but she realized now that it was
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  only a boy and girl love. She hoped he would have a great career
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  and believed in him absolutely. She knew it was for the best. The
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  Major did not marry her in the spring or any other time. Age never
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  got an answer to her letter to Chicago about it. A short time after,
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  he contracted Gonorha from a sales girl from the fair. Riding in a
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  taxicab through Lincoln Park end of chapter ten