“No? People do. I don’t care much, only…” she shrugs. There’s resignation in her expression.
“At home, a man like you wouldn’t talk to a woman like me. Only in an alley or that, or if I took my note to your home. It’d be nice not to be judged, I think. But it is not the way of the world.”
She smiles though. “2001? Is all the world different? Did France get rid of their king?”
And then she laughs. “They wear their hair just so -“ She demonstrates, pulling her tangle of curls to the side. “And stockings and their shoes are different, and their jackets. And such hair as yours I have never seen, you know? I like it. I would have liked to see a different world like yours. But there is here now, and it is quite wonderful, ain’t it?”
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“At home, a man like you wouldn’t talk to a woman like me. Only in an alley or that, or if I took my note to your home. It’d be nice not to be judged, I think. But it is not the way of the world.”
She smiles though. “2001? Is all the world different? Did France get rid of their king?”
And then she laughs. “They wear their hair just so -“
She demonstrates, pulling her tangle of curls to the side. “And stockings and their shoes are different, and their jackets. And such hair as yours I have never seen, you know? I like it. I would have liked to see a different world like yours. But there is here now, and it is quite wonderful, ain’t it?”