Lillian smiled at Louise and said, "You know different, only Heaven knows this is no place to entertain people."
The girls looked around again and their eyes remarked that it really was an amazingly ugly place.
"Well, now that we've been here," said Anna, "can we bring the boys over?"
Lillian had one of her rare flashes of insight. "Yes," she said, "you'd better bring them over. They'd never believe you if they didn't see it for themselves."
"Oh, it isn't as terrible as all that." Louise's eyes searched for something about which she could say a pleasant word. "You get the sun in this room," she said at last.
"That's a big help to me," Lillian said. "I'll be just crazy about it on a hot summer's day."
"My God, how long do you expect to stay here?" Anna asked.
"Not long, but it will be summer before we know it."
The girls were looking at their watches, drawing out their compacts, their lipsticks, pulling their hats more firmly down upon their heads. Lillian thought it would be cute if they rehearsed these gestures and did them more perfectly in unison. It was pretty well done even as it was, but Louise had twisted her leg to see if the seam in her stocking was straight; Anna hadn't done that. It sort of spoiled things. They were going now. Lillian thought of her Nash roadster. Maybe even now somebody else owned it and Hubert was on his way to her with money. Tonight would be a good time to have
