Bennington Girls Are Easy by Charlotte Silver

Author:Charlotte Silver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-07-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

The following weekend, while Cassandra was off at the Harvard Club being tied to a four-poster (one of the old-fashioned rooms had become available to her and Edward at the last moment after all), Sylvie continued to rake in money at the lemonade stand. It was a beautiful, warm Saturday and Fort Greene was full of young couples and parents with children and even Manhattanites, who kept reading in the Styles section that Brooklyn was now paradise on earth and were curious to go and check it out. Sylvie’s lemonade stand was just the kind of charming, scrappy little touch they were hoping to see and they were delighted to give her their business. A couple of them even asked Sylvie if they could buy the gray velveteen tablecloth, but Sylvie, realizing that it had value, was determined to hold on to it.

Gala hadn’t been able to make it to the lemonade stand either, being too hungover. So Sylvie got Hannah, the nanny of that little boy Julius, to help out. Hannah was plain and therefore unlikely to attract foot traffic like Gala or even Cassandra. But she had something that neither of them did: a work ethic. Sylvie made a note to keep using Hannah as long as she could; even better, she had done it for free and Sylvie saw no reason to bring up the subject of paying her before Hannah did.

On Saturday night, with Edward dozing beside her in the four-poster, Cassandra texted Sylvie:

OMG. PROFESSOR SOBEL JUST INVITED ME TO HAVE DINNER AT LE BERNARDIN. ACCEPT?

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