Redsteve’s Reviews > New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920 > Status Update

"The tableau had so vividly impressed her that hen the big green claws waved their seductive invitation she screamed and made a frantic effort to leave the box. Her friends sought to explain that the Lobster gesticulating his affection and harmlessness, was one of her friends. But in the deadly hush that followed her first cry she shrilled "I know who he is, but that Lobster can't touch me!"