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`` I'm not a man who has many close intimate friends, Carla '', he said, wanting her to know all about him.

`` Oh, I'd drink with newspaper people.

I think I was what you might call a convivial man, and yet it was when I was alone in my studio, doing my work, that I really felt alive.

But I think a man needs at least one intimate friend to communicate with ''.

Pausing, he waited for her to turn, to ask a question.

She showed no interest at all in the life he had led back home, and it hurt him a little.

`` Well, what about you, Carla ''??