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Show A42- I would probably get in by summer. "Three months?" said Tobin. "You can't stay here another three months.'" I told 3 & & how sorry I was and she shrugged and asked what else I could do. I offered to move to a hotel and she told me to be practical, that as long as Amelia paid the rent, relax and enjoy it. I said that Mrs. Calvin across t the hall made me feel unwanted, and that John Tobin made me feel guilty as hell. A?y_A-tew*. Again she shrugged. "You're my. guest. To hell with them. Besides, I like somebody else doing the housework. Amelia wasn't the greatest at that." I didn't smile. I made a cherry pie for her. I wished I could find a way to convince Mrs. Calvin and Tobin of how safe and innocuous I was. Still, now and then I felt uneasy about living in such a middleclass place, with wall-to-wall carpeting in the livingroom, even though the inside was aii books all over and lots of prints on the walls. m£& didn't hang her friends' work, prefering good prints of work she loved, works of Picasso of course, also Matisse, Renoir, Chagall, and the first uncensored Bruegal I had ever seen, in the breeches thos» weighty erections. Good rural life. In the bathroom was a Modigliani nude and I stared at her elongated tf lovely body as if it held all kinds of answers. Above the daybed so that I slept beneath them were Renoir's "The Bathers," a large print of those ivory and rose women, all that heavy flesh so lightly worn. Sometimes they entered fty dreams and I went into the water laughing and splashing with them, washing their backs and getting thoroughly scrubbed myself. -fVftVMcJ „ , , , In her bedroom hung aNprint of Picasso's "The Lovers" from the time when she was married to Mark Wells, and while I was recouperating in that room I gazed often at their immense serenjfcity. Could lovers really be that serene? There was also a Klee, a Braque, a photograph of Rodin's "The Kiss," and one of the pxBixmxiucxx sketches Aaron Miles had made of Kafca before he painted her, head, neck and shoulders, the features more definite than he had finally used. And, my favorite there, a painting of R & b « & . It was a city scene, a girl of |