Babylon Revisited | Lorraine Quarrles
Lorraine Quarrles is "a lovely, pale blond of thirty" with whom Charlie socialized in his alcoholic days before the stock market crash. Although she is married, she has left her husband behind in America and is escorted by Duncan Schaeffer (who she familiarly calls "Dunc") throughout the story. She seems to be attracted to Charlie, and though he feels nothing for her now, during his dissipated days Lorraine was "very attractive" to him. Now she is one of the "ghosts" from his past: "blurred, worn away."
Charlie has severed whatever emotional connection he had to Lorraine, and...
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