First Love And Other Sorrows: Stories
“Her tiny pearl-handled brush moved without wavering. She studied the outline for a moment and then decided it was too passionate. Laurie was nineteen, a junior at Wellesley. She was wearing a virulent-purple bathrobe her favorite cousin, a would-be actor named Vergil, had given her when she was sixteen. It was, as Laurie said, a woman of the world’s bathrobe, even though by now it was a little faded and stained. In the cleft of the bathrobe was the lacy top of a black slip. Laurie’s brush hover...ed over the points of her lips. Innocence, she thought—a sort of ripe innocence, for a Chestnut Hill White. But, how the hell do you design ripe innocence? Laurie’s more familiar mouths wouldn’t do at all—the one she called “sullen juvenilia,” for instance, or “it’s springtime and time to laugh.” Henry White was taking her home to meet his mother, and even though Laurie had no intention of becoming engaged, still Henry was rich enough that she might change her mind. It would make her mother very happy.MoreLess
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