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This was a very warm, sympathetic girl, he decided.

Sympathy is a fine quality in a woman.

Now Vivian, for instance, was not too long on sympathy.

She felt, and said, that sympathy only made people feel sorry for themselves ; ;

it was a tough world, and you had to be tough to hold your own.

He didn't know what was so tough about Vivian's world, slopping around Nassau with what's-his-name.

Suppose what's-his-name got a sunburn??

Charlie couldn't see Vivian offering any hand lotion.

She might peel him, once the worst of the agony was over.