Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where.
I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.
She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept.
All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl.
And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way.
"Everybody thinks so-the most advanced people.
And I know.
I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything." Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn.
"Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!"