Dawn's Debauchers: Verbatim Dialog

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"That's the trouble with you, Jay," Lou told him frankly.
"You're always getting into fly-paper. Take me.
  I drop in the Spinning Top, pick up Tessie or Fifi,
  slip them a fifty-dollar bill and that's the end of it.
  I can meet them on the street with my wife,
  they never bat an eye."

"Ah, they got no feelings," Jay argued.
"What's the fun of sleeping with some
  little tart with no feelings?"

"Once you got feelings you're in trouble," Lou warned him.
"Those girls are all right. No talk. Nothing.
  But what do you do? You get some dame
  that's restless, mad at her husband maybe
  too high class for a fifty-dollar bill so
  you got to give them a diamond pin.
  Then the trouble begins."
  Dawn Powell
  Angels on Toast
 (1940)   

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Footnote
This page is dedicated to  9 East 10th St.

That was the Manhattan residence  where Ms. Powell wrote Angels On Toast. 

The next Dawn Powell page is  here.  
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