Status Updates From Zanzare

The Nausikaa sets sail with its motley crew aboard.

Mr. Talliaferro meets up with Fairchild and a couple strangers at Broussard’s. Mrs. Maurier and Patricia return home as Josh is whittling on the veranda. Fairchild and a crony meet up with Gordon outside his studio where he tells them he is joining them on the cruise.

They all go back to the studio, where Gordon shows Patricia, Mrs. Maurier’s niece, the piece he’s working on, wherein she sees her own likeness. The ladies leave with a declined invitation. We then learn about Mr. Talliaferro’s tragic marriage, the jobs he has held, most notably at a women’s department store, and his bachelor status of 8 years.

Mr. Talliaferro observes Gordon in his article studio while claiming to know so much about sex. Gordon, not really paying attention, asks him to go change out his milk bottle. On the way back from the store, he runs into Mrs. Maurier, who asks if he has invited Gordon to the yacht cruise.

I may be stupid