“I became an involuntary expert on Christabel LaMotte. There are two people in the world who know all that is known about Christabel LaMotte. One is Professor Leonora Stern, in Tallahassee. And the other is Dr Maud Bailey in Lincoln University. I met them both at that Paris conference on sexuality and textuality I went to. If you remember. I don’t think they like men. Nevertheless I had a brief affair with the redoubtable Maud. In Paris and then here.” He stopped and frowned to himself. He opened his mouth to say more and then closed it again. He said after a time, “She—Maud—runs a Women’s
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