Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith

Author:Patricia Highsmith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: virago
Published: 2015-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

But before Mildred could make a wise move away from Stanley, she found herself given away. This was a shock. An economist would have drawn a conclusion about currency that was given away, and so did Mildred. She realized that Stanley came out a bit better in the deal he had made with the man called Louis, to whom he gave Mildred, but still —

And she was only twenty-three. But Mildred knew that was the danger age, and that she’d better play her cards carefully from now on. Eighteen was the peak, and she was five years past it, and what had she to show for it? A diamond bracelet that men eyed with greed, and that she’d twice had to get out of hock with the aid of some new bastard. A mink coat – same story. A suitcase with a couple of good-looking dresses. What did she want? Well, she wanted to continue the same life but with a sense of greater security. What would she do if her back was really to the wall? If she, kicked out maybe, not even given away, had to go to a bar and even then couldn’t pick up more than a one-night stand. Well, she had some addresses of past men friends, and she could always write them and threaten to put them in her memoirs, which she could say a publisher was paying her to write. But Mildred had talked with girls twenty-five and older who’d threatened memoirs, if they weren’t pensioned off for life, and she’d heard of only one who had succeeded. More often, the girls said, it was a laugh they got, or a ‘Go ahead and write it’ rather than any money.

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