Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.

It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been crushed destroyed made to disappear.

All really interesting girls invent themselves.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.