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Out of some simple part of me
which I cannot use up
 I took a blessing for the flowers
tightening in the night
like fists of jealous love
 like knots
no one can undo without destroying
 The new morning gathered me
in blue mist
 like dust under wedding gown
Then I followed the …

"Therese," said a voice near her. "Do you like champagne?"

Therese turned and saw Genevieve Cranell. "Of course."

"Of course. Well, toddle up to six-nineteen in a few minutes. That's my suite. We're having an inner circle party later."

"I feel very honored," Therese said.

"So don't wast…

[...] She looked at Therese. "Anyway, it's a living and I'll like it. The apartment's a nice big one—big enough for two. I was hoping you might like to come and live with me, but I guess you won't."

Therese's heart took a jump, exactly as it had when Carol had telephoned her that day in the stor…

Something Carol had said once came suddenly to her mind: every adult has secrets. Said as casually as Carol said everything, stamped as indelibly in her brain as the address she had written on the sales slip in Frankenberg's. She had an impulse to tell Dannie the rest, about the picture in the libr…

"I want to get back to New York, Dannie."

"Oh." He smiled, looking at her hair, her lips, and it occurred to her Dannie had never seen her with this much makeup on. "You look grown up all of a sudden," he said. "You changed your hair, didn't you?"

"A little."

"You don't look frightened any…