Seducing Ingrid Bergman — Chapter 16

1. 1. The narrator bets all his money on horse number seven in the seventh race after an inner voice insists, but loses when a grey horse steals the win.
2. 2. Ingrid Bergman spots reporters in a restaurant and handles them by acting confident and normal, convincing them there is no story.
3. 3. Ingrid tells the narrator a story about a director who advised her to fake an emotion in a scene, which made it work.
4. 4. Ingrid feels torn between her husband Petter and her lover Capa, waking up expecting Capa beside her and feeling she belongs elsewhere.
5. 5. Ingrid learns from Joe that Capa has been indiscreet, boasting about their affair, which angers her and leads to a tense car ride.
6. 6. Ingrid slaps her daughter Pia after the girl accidentally stains her white dress with hot chocolate, an act she immediately regrets.
7. 7. Ingrid sees two reporters waiting outside her house, heightening her sense of dread and entrapment.
8. 8. Ingrid decides she must act to resolve her situation, practicing telling Petter 'I'm leaving you' in front of a mirror.
9. 9. Ingrid and Capa drive to a beach house in Malibu, where they swim and make love, momentarily forgetting their troubles.
10. 10. Ingrid reflects that her love for Capa feels like a heavy, red-colored adultery, and she craves more from life than her marriage offers.
11. 11. At a restaurant, Ingrid spots potential reporters and insists on leaving, despite Capa's objections, saying 'I can't do this.'