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The suitcase sits on the bed in the B&B , the lamp on , the logbook lying open on the pillow beside it . Nils has been reading the logbook — not the scientific entries , but the margin notes : a small sketch of a plant , an observation about light , a note to herself . One margin note reads : " The door faces east . At nine o'clock he calls . Clara sets down her pencil . " I 've been reading your logbook , " Nils says . " There is a note — about a door that faces east . " He considers how to put it . " I thought you might be looking for a house to buy . " Clara is quiet for a moment . She does not say which door she means , and he does not ask . After the call , Nils takes out the photograph of the blue door . He holds it under the lamp and looks at it . He puts it back where he found it . His fair has been extended by one day — a cancelled presenter , a workshop moved . Her seedlings have been in transit since Thursday and can not last another day . The halfway town sits between two train lines that will not meet this week . " Next week , then , " says Nils . " You do n't sound disappointed , " says Clara . The red ribbon is in his hand — he has taken it from the inner pocket without meaning to . He folds it back into the paper and sets it on the table . The halfway town is somewhere between them , unseen . The logbook is on the pillow .
