The Company of Saints
“The Minister used her official car and her husband went with her. She had work to do during the drive. Louise took her friend in her own little car. She talked all the way, but Hélène wasn’t listening to a word.
She’d packed her only long skirt and a change of frilly blouses. Albert Duvalier and his wife expected their guests to change for dinner. It was a bore, the Minister said, but they were old and very set in their ways. Anything pretty would do. She knew that Hélène had a limited allowance and wouldn’t have spent it on formal dresses. She was so tactful, so thoughtful of her young friend’s feelings. Hélène told her aunt where she was going. Her aunt was impressed as Hélène expected she would be. She fussed and fretted over her niece’s clothes, suggested she had her hair cut; she hoped that perhaps there might be some eligible young men invited.… Hélène knew what she was thinking; she understood the mentality that saw nothing degrading in women selling themselves to men and calli...ng it marriage.MoreLess
She’d packed her only long skirt and a change of frilly blouses. Albert Duvalier and his wife expected their guests to change for dinner. It was a bore, the Minister said, but they were old and very set in their ways. Anything pretty would do. She knew that Hélène had a limited allowance and wouldn’t have spent it on formal dresses. She was so tactful, so thoughtful of her young friend’s feelings. Hélène told her aunt where she was going. Her aunt was impressed as Hélène expected she would be. She fussed and fretted over her niece’s clothes, suggested she had her hair cut; she hoped that perhaps there might be some eligible young men invited.… Hélène knew what she was thinking; she understood the mentality that saw nothing degrading in women selling themselves to men and calli...ng it marriage.MoreLess
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