human
And she knew that these had dropped away--at first in the struggle, which for her had been so intense and narrowing, to gain a foothold in the town; then through rebuffs from the clever friends of Joe Lanier when she married him; and later through a feeling of lazy acceptance of her lot. But Ethel's talk and Ethel's eyes recalled what had been left behind. And Amy thought of her present friends, and again with a little uneasy pang she put off their meeting with Ethel. For they did not seem good to her then, and the picture she found herself painting of their lives and her own appeared a bit flat and trivial in the light of Ethel's eagerness. They dressed and went shopping, they went to tea dances, they dined in cafés or in their homes, rushed off in taxis to musical plays, and had supper and danced. They loved and were loved, they
gpt
My dear, she said decisively,
human
Oh, my friends aren't all I'd like. They never are, if you've anything in you. If you really want to be somebody-- and here her whole expression changed to one of resolute faith in herself--
gpt
A gleam of hunger almost fierce came into her clear violet eyes.
human
I want a larger apartment--I've picked out the very one. And I want a car, a limousine. I know just how I'll paint it a mauve body with white wheels. And I want a house on Long Island. I've picked out the very spot--just next to Fanny Carr's new place.
gpt
Who's Fanny Carr?