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Lambert hesitated. 'But on that score, too, she's difficult. Maybe I shouldn't tell you this, but I just don't understand it; I'm completely at a loss. If a single evening goes by without anything happening between us, she feels insulted. But practically every amorous advance shocks her, so natural…

'I wonder what was going on in his head?' I asked.

'Oh, he builds himself little dreams,' Nadine replied scornfully. 'Only when he wants to bring me into them - excuse me, please!'

'I must say you don't encourage him much.'

'No. In fact, it's even funny, because when I feel he wants me to …

Nadine believed herself ugly, and it was out of spite, more than anything, that she disdained looking feminine. You would hardly suspect from her surly carelessness how sensitive she was to any remarks concerning her physical appearance. Her face suddenly hardened. 'If you want a woman who primps h…

Lucie examined me with definite hostility. There was an almost worried curiosity in that inspection, as if she were wondering, 'Is there another way than mine to be a woman and to profit from being a woman? Has something escaped me?' Her eyes shifted back to Paula. 'One of these days, you really ou…

I didn't protest. I let them explain to me with well-worn slogans that country from which I had just returned. Overgrown children ... A woman's paradise . . . Abominable lovers ... A feverish and giddy life ... Dudule boldly even used the word 'phallus' in connection with the skyscrapers. Listening…