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"Yes, in fact a gallery in Drummondville is interested and there’s a juried show in Boston we ht enter"

"That’s terrific" Clara turned to Myrna "Their series on wings is stunning"

Myrna al" once more she really would vomit She wondered what it was code for Crappy? Hideous? So far Normand had described Clara’s works, which he clearly didn’t like, as stunning Paulette had said Nor some powerful pieces which, she assured the

And, of course, they were both simply stunned by Clara’s success

But then, they’d ad stunned by Lillian’sat a bowl of licorice allsorts on the table in the sitting roo how Lillian came to be here yesterday Do you knoho invited her?"

"Didn’t you?" asked Paulette

Clara shook her head

Myrna leaned back and listened closely as they speculated about who ht have been in contact with Lillian

"She’d been back in Montréal for a few months, you know," said Paulette

Clara hadn’t known

"Yeah," said Norized for being such a bitch years ago"

"Really?" asked Clara "Lillian did that?"

"We figure she was just sucking up," said Paulette "When she left ere nobodies but noe’re pretty well established"

"Now, she needs us," said Normand "Needed us"

"For what?" asked Clara

"She said she’d gone back to doing some art Wanted to show us her portfolio," said Normand

"And what did you say?"

They looked at each other "We told her we didn’t have ti to do with her"

Clara nodded She’d have done the sa, she hoped Been polite, but distant It was one thing to forgive, it was another to cli a tutu and s pan