“It wasn’t. She seemed to be enjoying it.There to help her with the enjoying was Nevirovski’s junior surgeon, the one who called himself Rollo. Because the surgeon began letting her appear in public she needed a more elaborate wardrobe. Nevirovski cheerfully paid the bills, Rollo escorted Gerda to the appropriate shops.She wasn’t yet Gerda. The name she was going by, which she didn’t much care for, had been given to her by Nevirovski himself, “Lolita Karenina.” It seemed to be some complicated R...ussian kind of a joke, and between shops they had been amusing themselves trying to think of alternative names, as well as to invent a backstory to offer casual acquaintances—perhaps a childhood in Catasaqua, Pennsylvania, college at Pennsylvania State University, and now present in the Stans because she had fled the outside world with an embezzler who had then run out on her.She was enjoying the make-believe, and enjoying the company of Rollo as well, not to mention the pleasures of spending large amounts of money on clothes and entertainments.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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