18/47 They write for the same paper--it's a fashion paper. You saw that hat, by the way, she had on? She has a whole cupboard of them at home, and when she wants money she sells them for what she can get. Well, she told me that Madame--they all call her Madame, though they all know quite well that she's not married, and that her name is Flink--boasts perpetually of her engagement. It seems that he was ill in the winter--in his lodgings. |