Summary

As they walked toward Dean’s jazz bar, Alice wondered at Lucy’s sudden appearance. She was so familiar, beautiful and charismatic as ever, and yet Alice felt she knew less about her than ever. The last time they had met, she had told Lucy she wished she would disappear, and what had happened after was still too painful to think about. The inside of Dean’s was dingy, packed with foreigners and locals. She felt annoyed with John, who began interrogating Lucy about her life. Back in New York, she had typed manuscripts for a publishing house and wrote obituaries for a small newspaper. John asked why she had bothered going to Bennington to do such menial jobs, and when she answered she had been on scholarship, he sneered. She countered by explaining she had wanted to study literature, and asked if...