I wish sometimes I could
really paint the kind of thing that goes with stupid people's dining
rooms. They with their _Long Island_ Louvres!
SILVIA
If you did, Joe, I'd put it in the stove. Don't think you are having all
the fun of being a pioneer. It's exciting to be within a mile of it!
JOE
Good girl. Ugh! Let's go to Boudet's and have dinner. I want to get the
bad taste out of my mouth!
HIS LUCK
_The living room in a small flat in Beekman Place. Two women, one of them
in mourning, sit beside the remains of tea._
VERA
But Jean, where are you going, when you pack up here?
JEAN
I'm not leaving here. I'm staying on.
VERA
Oh. But I thought that now ... you were talking about being free for your
own work at last....
JEAN
If I have any work to do, I can do it here. You don't understand, quite.
All these years I have been living from whirlpool to whirlpool, never
settled, always _deracine_--the thought of getting accustomed to another
place makes me shudder.
VERA
I can imagine, now, how it has been, Jean. But can you find any peace
here? With all these things about? You are so sensitive--lamps, and
pictures, and rugs--these aren't just _furniture_ to you, they are images
of the past.
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