Snow is long in coming to Henry and Catherine's brown house in the mountains that fall. Henry describes their house, and the mountain they live on, in loving detail. He describes the minute details of their life together, where they eat lunch, where they go for walks, and about their housekeepers, Mr. and Mrs. Guttingen. To Henry, the war in Italy now seems "as far away as the football games of someone else's college." They talk of marriage, but Catherine will not hear of it in her "matronly state," as she calls it.
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