Mussolini to grant him an interview. “He only asks not to be
sent away without moral satisfaction after his hopes have been
aroused.”
Mussolini this much is plain did not unbend and see
Göring even now. The hotel affair wasn’t settled, either.
That spring of , depressed and defeated, the Görings
scraped together enough money to leave for Sweden. Carin had
sold the villa and shipped their surviving furniture to a little
apartment at No. , Ödengatan, in Stockholm. From Sweden
her downhearted husband sent one last picture postcard to Dr.
Leo Negrelli in Rome, expressing his joy at seeing familiar sur-
roundings again and inquiring whether he should write to “M.”
again in connection with the Walther affair. “We often think
with gratitude,” his postcard ended, “of beautiful Italy and of
our friends there.”