seemed to matter to them.” Ernest constantly bragged about Hadley to his friends. He wrote Bill Smith that she “fishes not with the usual feminine simulation of interest but like one of the men. She’s as intelligent about fights as she is about music, she drinks with a male without remorse, and turned out Bumby the boy spring off who is built like Firpo, sleeps all night and is as cheerful as a pup. Hash hasn’t lost any looks and gets better all the time. She runs the house like a Rolls Royce.”
Bragging
