31/38 She would like to have a lover, but no one wants her, because of her bony face and her scraped appearance; from a sort of eczema. A five-year-old girl points her tiny finger at Louise and twitters, "She wants a man." In the Place is Veron, going about aimlessly, like a dead leaf--Veron, who revolves, when he may, round Antonia. An ungainly man, whose tiny head leans to the right and wears a colorless smile. He lives on a few rents and does not work. He is good and affectionate, and sometimes he is overcome by attacks of compassion. |