She pulled Mimi aside during cocktails on the upper deck. “You are too young to be here.” Mimi was stunned. Humiliated. She thought she had become so sophisticated, keeping such a dangerous secret with élan. But this woman had seen right through her. Who else knew? She had to recover quickly. “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Mimi said. “You’re going to regret it,” the woman said. “All of a sudden you’ll turn around and you’ll be twenty-five and you won’t have a life.”
