She was a manager, a secretary, a cook, a companion, a lover—a wife of her time and class. And she enjoyed it, lunching with friends on filet of sole, driving with Gertrude to Marseilles for bouillabaisse, cooking bass for Picasso, taking an ocean liner to America, getting two enormous crabs at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, and tasting passion fruit for the first time.
