I’ll paint, and you’ll write the great roman du jour, you know, like The Green Hat.” Oh, not that book again, Ramsay thought. Ramsay was sick of hearing about it. Anyone could write a provocative but ultimately quite tedious contemporary novel. “You could!” Shirley said, without irony. Ramsay didn’t know that Shirley painted. “I don’t,” she said airily, “but I’m sure I could.”
