After "The Face of Paris": Woman Crossing the Seine | Rodrigo Palacios

After “The Face of Paris”, Woman Crossing the Seine, Rodrigo Palacios

…to my pleasant surprise, I find, lying face
down, stretched out on my bed as if crying, a woman
with long hair, cascading on what I deem to be
very delicate shoulders, which I do not dare touch.

For some strange reason, the first thing I want to talk
about with the stranger is the experience I had with a
clocharde on Place des Victoires, as that vision is still
vivid in my mind. 

As soon as I finished relating to her the
horror I had witnessed when I saw the faceless vagrant,
the woman on the bed got up slowly, turned around to
face me, and said:

“Was she like me?”