She would persist in wearing them and eventually, with any luck, Vera would ask in exasperation why she always had to wear black and she would reply like Nina in The Seagull, “I am in mourning for my life.”
Part of Janet’s lifelong romanticization of her entire existence was the use of literary quotes which she stored in the hopes that something cinematic would happen to her that provided an opportunity to use it, and how fitting that this was the last quote that crossed her mind before her death.
