She was quiet for a moment, turning the ashtray in her fingers.įranny quickly tipped her cigarette ash, then brought the ashtray an inch closer to her side of the table. There's an unwritten law that people in a certain social or financial bracket can name-drop as much as they like just as long as they say something terribly disparaging about the person as soon as they've dropped his name-that he's a bastard or a nymphomaniac or takes dope all the time, or something horrible." She broke off again. I know when they're going to be charming, I know when they're going to start telling you some really nasty gossip about some girl that lives in your dorm, I know when they're going to ask me what I did over the summer, I know when they're going to pull up a chair and straddle it backward and start bragging in a terribly, terribly quiet voice-or name-dropping in a terribly quiet, casual voice. It's just that for four solid years I've kept seeing Wally Campbells wherever I go. "I don't mean there's anything horrible about him or anything like that. But her voice picked up again, in spite of herself. It sounded to her caviling and bitchy, and she felt a wave of self-hatred that, quite literally, made her forehead begin to perspire again. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else." Franny made her voice stop. Listen, don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately.
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