We talked a little more, then said our goodbyes. Mattie'sshort-lived marriage had probably hooked her somehow to Max Devote. She isn't aware of the men--most of them very young men, the kindwho under ordinary circumstances dare only look at her from the cornersof their eyes--until the oldest one among them speaks. I used to think I was a classy dame up home and then I woke up one morning and found I was nothing but a goddam whore.
Today the voikers run before the cops, but soon it wil be the cops run before the voikers, someone yel ed. That was hisgoing-away present to the TR. This one wasn't afraid or even tentative;this one sounded so happy she was almost bubbling over. She said, Isn't it terrible?Let's not talk about it any more.
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