Chapter 6

She said, “No. I’ve come here to live. I’m going to be a newspaper reporter.” He said, “Well--it’s a very entertaining life if you’re sure you want it--but the hours are hard.” She wondered if that were supposed to be funny and if she should laugh. She was disconcerted to discover that the years between twenty-one and thirty-five seemed almost as great as the years between seventeen and thirty-one. She didn’t know at all what to talk to him about. But the thing to do, she had learned, when she couldn’t manage conve…