But the questions he returned – about her family, her education – unbalanced them again. Her discomfort at answering him disturbed her. According to Marx, the money form is an illusion – she ought to be able to talk frankly about it, no? The driver’s eyes flashed from their caves. She was rich and female and African and he resented her. No doubt he would charge an unreasonably high fare. But then he didn’t, and in her haste to catch her train, she forgot to tip him.
