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The Danish Girl Chapter 5

By David Ebershoff

Chapter 5

Back in the present, in Copenhagen, Lili gets dressed for the Artists' Ball.
She and Greta show up together.
At the ball, Lili meets and flirts with a man named Henrik.
She leaves the party with him, and he walks her home—on the way, he kisses her. Lili kisses a boy and she likes it.
Suddenly, her nose bleeds.
Henrik runs for help and taps on the shoulder of a woman who just happens to be Greta.
Greta sees Henrik, and she sees Lili's bloody nose. She thinks Henrik hurt her.
Lili tells Greta that Henrik didn't hurt her, but Henrik still runs off as Greta presses her scarf to stanch the blood from Lili's nose.

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