It would help if I were able to feel guilty. But the end of innocence is also the end of

Giovanni liked to believe that he was hard-headed and that I was not and that he was teaching me the

‘Men – not just babies like you, but old men, too – they always nee a woman to tell them

She seems, like most of the women down here, to have gone into mourning directly the last child moved out

But I knew I could not open the door, I knew it was too late; soon it was too late

I ached abruptly, intolerably, with a longing to go home; […] But home, home across the ocean, to things and

He looked at me and I saw in his face again something which I have fleetingly seen there during these

‘Somebody’, said Jacques, ‘your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love.

‘I’m sorry. But I think, since you bring it up, that a lot of your life is despicable’. ‘I could

Behind the counter sat one of those absolutely inimitable and indomitable ladies, produced only in the city of Paris, but