Section 7 Summary

Our protagonist is in Paris after the war. He is reading at a cafy. A young blonde woman with blue eyes is watching him. She tries to attract his attention. After a while, he becomes embarrassed. He finally asks her if she knows him. She says she doesn't. She moves closer and sits down with him. She asks if he wants to make love. He is a virgin. In his virgin mind, people make love at night, not in the middle of the afternoon. He tells her he has no money, but she tells him that it is okay because he can pay her another time. He is also afraid that, being a virgin, he won't know what to do. He also realizes that if he does make love to this strange woman, it will somehow change him, and the fact that he...