Chapter Eleven
An Artists’s Model
It was now the first week of December and Eve was accompanying Roger to a fund-raising gala at the Museum of Modern Art. Eve had once viewed these affairs with dread and some of that fish-out-of-water sensation still lingered, yet now she found herself actually welcoming the diversion. Last weekend she had spent Thanksgiving at her parents’ home. It had been only the third time she had seen them since meeting Roger, the other occasions being the previous Thanksgiving and Christmas. Each time she had come without Roger, driving upstate with her sister and her husband. These family occasions were a strain. Her parents simply didn’t approve of her “living in sin” with a man, as they viewed it. They had not been happy about her living with Paul either, not t
