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"The daytime world, in which she worked, exercised, ate modestly, and napped, was genuine. The nighttime world in which she reigned as queen was an artificial illusion that might one day come unmade."

"Whereas at home it had been a lovely spring, in Paris it was raining, 'a cold rain that eats into the very marrow of the bone, ...and I am more alone and homesick than I ever believed it possible to be.' She had a lunch date, but the taxi took her to the wrong Hotel d'Angleterre and she missed it. At night, she went to the movies, but she got lost and panic-stricken returning to her hotel room."