Age
“She must be ambulatory. Sherm and Kit were not the sort to encumber themselves with a complete invalid, even in order to stay at the Plaza for free. Or she would have a nurse, maybe one of the Sisters from the hospice whom she would have enticed away—perhaps to let them see how we handle death in the States. According to what Rupert told me long ago, Gertrude had always been able to find what Sherm calls an ‘aegis.’ Often she ran several at once, all of them vying for her attention. ‘As if she ...was saddled with us,’ Rupert had said, ‘and she was only seeing how we would do. The candidates will always change. But she will never lack for them. And the attention she gives them is—well—professional. For a long while I didn’t see that I was serving Gertrude. I thought I was learning how to live my life.’ And in a way, he had. Once, when I referred to her as a femme fatale, he said, no, that soiled old phrase, which reminded one of flashy art-nouveau women in monkey fur or grand courtesans riding the Bois in Klimt poses, would not describe what she was or did.MoreLess
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