“Is that all you have to say?” Michelle challenged her. Against the sinister, the threatening, monstrous inhumanity of the limitless city, there was nothing now but this supreme, ugly fact of a pursuit— the pursuit of the undesired, persistent male. There’s something about you, a little flavor of Will, I suppose, that makes one feel—good luck about you and success. A discreet husband would leave the dispensation of his bounty, where women are concerned, to his wife.