![]() ![]() ![]() Anna claims after he leaves that she doesn’t like him, but Maudie urges her to go out with him, since he has money. Before he leaves, they arrange to get together again when the theater tour passes through London. He buys stockings for her and then comes back to her and Maudie’s small room, where they have drinks and make awkward conversation. They meet two older men on the street who are obviously wealthy, and one of them- Walter-takes a liking to Anna, though she’s only 18. One day, she and her friend Maudie go shopping in a small town. ![]() Anna longs for the West Indies and often loses herself in childhood memories, fantasizing about her home’s sights, sounds, and smells-all of which seem vibrant and lively compared to life in England, which she finds bleak and monotonous. After her father died, her British stepmother, Hester, moved her to England, where she now works as a chorus girl in a traveling theater troupe. Anna Morgan is a young white woman who was born and raised in the West Indies. ![]()
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