“The day was so charming – didn’t he agree? And wouldn’t he, perhaps?...But he shook his head, lighted a cigarette, slowly breathed a great deep puff into her face, and, even while she was still talking and laughing, flicked the match away and walked on” (136). Though she did not fully understand the meaning of this “performance”, I believe that she sympathized with the woman in the ermine
“The day was so charming – didn’t he agree? And wouldn’t he, perhaps?...But he shook his head, lighted a cigarette, slowly breathed a great deep puff into her face, and, even while she was still talking and laughing, flicked the match away and walked on” (136). Though she did not fully understand the meaning of this “performance”, I believe that she sympathized with the woman in the ermine