He loved her desperately and in vain. You always only love desperately when it’s in vain!Then she fell very, very ill. So she said to him: “I feel pity for you. I want to show myself to you more naked than naked!” And she unrolled a large sheet of paper on which her x-ray had been printed. “Oh, what a darling little skeleton!” he said, delighted. “But I beg you this one favor, just don’t go and show it to Mr.—; that much advantage I’d at least like to have over that dog!”