The comment seems to affect Tinker, but then he smiles and agrees. Tinker says the girls should be less shy, while they say he should get out of his ruts. The group toasts and then makes resolutions. He finally returns with a bottle of champagne. Tinker leaves momentarily, and both Katey and Eve begin to worry that he’s left them with the bill. Katey, ever observant, notes that this is shorthand for the fact that Tinker most likely was born in the Back Bay, went to Brown, and works at a firm that his grandfather founded. He’s a Wall Street banker who was born in Massachusetts and went to a college in Providence. Tinker seems shy, but begins to chat with the two and reveals his background. Tinker finally admits that he’s waiting for his brother Hank, but Hank never shows up. He introduces himself as Tinker Grey and buys the girls drinks for his snafu. Later, he realizes that he’s placed his coat on a chair at their table and apologizes.
The man wears an expensive cashmere coat, and he looks as if he’s waiting for someone. Then a handsome, well-dressed man enters the club and both women spot him. Eve and Katey plan to stretch their meager funds (three dollars) for the night, but they end up drinking too much too fast.Įve tries to flirt with a tall black musician, but he doesn’t pay her any attention. Later sessions will include the woeful impromptu jazz that is not yet in vogue but will be soon.
She and Eve listen to a jazz quartet at the Hotspot.
Katey explains that people with money are at louder clubs with full orchestras, where the atmosphere is more celebratory. Martingale’s boarding house, along with a large group of other girls. Eve, however, wants to make a go of it alone and refuses to take anymore handouts from her father, including an envelope of fifty ten-dollar bills. Her father is wealthy and managed to get Eve a marketing assistant job at Pembroke Press. Eve is a gorgeous blond from the Midwest. On New Year’s Eve in 1937, narrator Katey goes to a nightclub in Greenwich Village called the Hotspot with her roommate, Eve.
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