"For better or worse he is my husband, till divorce do us part," she says. George makes a sneering remark about Ellen's husband - whom she refers to as Jojo - and she snaps back at him. She explains to him that for once she has had the whole day free, and that she has spent it walking through the Park from 105th Street to 59th. She watches a girl with "chestnut hair" in a green Dolly Varten hat ride slowly by on a white horse, over a saddlecloth embroidered with the word: "Danderine." She finally arrives at the Brevoort, there to lunch with George Baldwin. He hurries Ruth out of the building, complaining to her that "that place gives the infernal jimjams" and noting that Elaine - "that lovely girl with copper hair," as he describes her, and our very own Ellen Thatcher - is too beautiful to be married to the likes of "the Ogle." Ruth notes that Elaine has "made kind of a hit in Peach Blossoms" and that she has talent as an actress.Įllen walks through the city. ![]() Sunderland, the oldest lady of the lot, going into the bathroom. His wife Elaine calls from inside her room for those outside to quiet down. At that moment, a "crookednosed man" with red hair opens his door: it is Mr. "Ruth does nothing but talk about you," she eagerly tells Jimmy. Jimmy has grown into a fast talker, a witty skeptic, and he fires off the following line to Ruth: "The sun's shining outside and people are coming out of church and going home to overeat and read at their Sunday papers among the rubberplants."Ĭassandra Wilkins, a neighbor whom Jimmy refers to as "funny-looking," is folding sheets off a cot in the hall. She is an aspiring but out-of-work actress named Ruth Prynne. Jimmy Herf, now on his own and a budding journalist, goes to see an older woman with whom he has a relationship in her apartment building.
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