Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers
“He enclosed a photograph of her, and another of the two of them. Niki’s father looked young, a handsome young man—slender, golden brown, muscular He had a shock of brown hair and even, white teeth. Ann, whose father always looked like a respectable, responsible man, whose father would never have been taken for anything other than the Philadelphia lawyer he was, gaped. “He looks so young,” she protested.
“Well he is. He’s not thirty-nine yet.” Niki studied the second photograph. “What about her?...”
Ann looked at it. “How old is she?”
“He doesn’t say. That means he thinks she’s pretty young for him. Or he thinks I’ll think or somebody’ll think. Hildy? What would you say?”
“She looks sixteen, doesn’t she?”
“He’s not that bad. He doesn’t seduce kids.”
“Perhaps older than she looks? Where I live she would be sixteen or seventeen. But in California, where everybody stays younger longer—twenty perhaps.”
“I can’t ever tell people’s ages,”MoreLess
“Well he is. He’s not thirty-nine yet.” Niki studied the second photograph. “What about her?...”
Ann looked at it. “How old is she?”
“He doesn’t say. That means he thinks she’s pretty young for him. Or he thinks I’ll think or somebody’ll think. Hildy? What would you say?”
“She looks sixteen, doesn’t she?”
“He’s not that bad. He doesn’t seduce kids.”
“Perhaps older than she looks? Where I live she would be sixteen or seventeen. But in California, where everybody stays younger longer—twenty perhaps.”
“I can’t ever tell people’s ages,”MoreLess
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