The Importance of Friendship

All white women of a certain age in London wore Margaret. Suspicion made her puret each one of them, noting their low-cut blouses and fashionably belt-cenched wastes How could she compete with them? At home she sometimes touched herself while imagining Ravi with one of them,. only to pull her hand away. She didn't want the revelation of the true Margaret to take away a city full of her playthings. Mira told herself that her perversions were brought on by loneliness, the desire for friendship. They were always stuck on the ground floor of friendship Expressing admiration for each other's existence without making the slightest attempt to penetrate to the truth. Their