““She'd encountered people like this before, in college as well as earlier, going all the way back to when she was a little girl—and, of course, at the film distributor where she worked before getting married, too. Coming up to you like they were your best friend and you shared all your confidences, they would start running people down right and left, expecting you to agree with everything they said. But then the next thing you knew you'd see them cozying up to somebody else and making you the target of their smears.””
