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“Is it so wrong I should irl?”

“Your daughter is right here,” Rainy says with teeth-gritting impatience

“My daughter wears a dress when she goes out, especially to the Stork Club What if Walter Winchell is there and he sees you dressed like a ood boy?”

“I don’t know yet”

“You go out dancing till all hours with a boy you don’t know?”

Rainy’s father sticks his head around the corner “What boy?”

“He’s a nice Jewish boy,” Rainy says

“At least there’s that,” her , ed advertisement of disappointment and desolation This disappointment at least is not really about Rainy, but rather her brother, Aryeh, a Marine, whooff to the Pacific Their baby is expected momentarily

“You look beautiful, even in unifor too beautiful in a dress with legs and ar this boy ideas” He puts a hand over his heart “I speak as a man when I say never trust any man”

Rainy is not worried about Halev Leventhal getting too fa to her father She’s put it off and put it off, each ti for some perfect moment

She glances at the wall clock She has time

“Get it over with,” she et it over with, the anxiety of it will ruin her night with Halev

Her date with Halev That’s right, it is a date Definitely a date

She waits until herand pulls her father aside in the hallway outside her bedroom

“What, you need cab fare to co in his pants for his wallet