"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional ladyLoos, Anita
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"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional lady
Loos, Anita
Diary fiction; Humorous stories; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Millionaires -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction
So at first Dorothy said, Why didn’t I take a chance and marry Henry
because she had an idea that if Henry married me he would commit
suicide about two weeks later. But I told her about my plan to do quite
a lot of shopping, and I told her that I would send for Henry and I
would manage it so that I would not be in the apartment when he came,
but she could be there and start a conversation with him and she could
tell him about all of my shopping and how extravagant I seemed to be
and he would be in the poor house in less than a year if he married me.
So Dorothy said for me to take one farewell look at Henry and leave him
to her, because the next time I saw him would be in the witness box and
I might not even recognize him because she would throw a scare into him
that might change his whole physical appearance. So I decided to leave
him in the hands of Dorothy and hope for the best.
July 10th:
Well, last month was really almost a diary in itself, and I have to
begin to realize that I am one of the kind of girls that things happen
to. And I have to admit, after all, that life is really wonderful.
Because so much has happened in the last few weeks that it almost makes
a girl’s brains whirl.
I mean in the first place I went shopping at Cartiers and bought quite
a delightful square cut emerald and quite a long rope of pearls on
Henry’s credit. So then I called up Henry on the long distants
telephone and told him that I wanted to see him quite a lot, so he was
very very pleased and he said that he would come right up to New York.
So then I told Dorothy to come to the apartment and be there when Henry
came, and to show Henry what I bought on his credit, and to tell him
how extravagant I seem to be, and how I seem to keep on getting worse.
So I told Dorothy to go as far as she liked, so long as she did not
insinuate anything against my character, because the more spotless my
character seems to be, the better things might turn out later. So Henry
was due at the apartment about 1.20, so I had Lulu get some luncheon
for he and Dorothy and I told Dorothy to tell him that I had gone out
to look at the Russian Crown Jewels that some Russian Grand Duchess or
other had for sale at the Ritz.
So then I went to the Primrose Tea Room to have luncheon with Mr.
Montrose because Mr. Montrose loves to tell me of all his plans, and he
says that I seem to remind him quite a lot of a girl called Madame
Recamier who all the intelectual gentlemen used to tell all of their
plans to, even when there was a French revolution going on all around
them.
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