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Sultry, sensuous Chloe Delaplain, 18, flew into a rage. "Obscene-obscene picador," she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the Delaplain brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...
...almost before the reader knows it, years & years have passed and Chloe is drifting to her death in Latin America, having made derelict love to all comers, including an Argentine tenor, a Nicaraguan politico and a Grace Line purser. Readers of drugstore novels, as soon as they spot the heroine's name, will know this is for them; for Chloe is to this season's novels and soap operas what Sandra and Brenda were to the trash of previous years...
Author Milne hints darkly that something odd must have happened to Chloe in her earlier days to make her treat men so naughtily. But even after she has been killed off in an airplane disaster, he never tells the reader what that something was. "She was so b-beautiful," sobs her bereaved maidservant, "and now she's all b-broken up. . . !" Pooh is the word for Chloe Marr...
...Heroine Chloe ("The One Woman, with all London at her feet") is as far removed from Winnie-the-Pooh as Amber is from Little Eva. Her beauty, writes Milne, who is now a frosty and vigorous 64, "was beauty triumphant; alive, challenging, insistent; a brilliant attack on the sex of every man." From the instant of her awakening (around noon) to the moment when her gorgeous form slides between the sheets once more (6 a.m., usually), Chloe's boudoir rings with the anguished moans of a slew of infatuated males, ranging from struggling artists to doddering peers, and mostly...
...Chloe's devoted suitors are rewarded only with such snacks as "the incomparable Chloe Cocktail" ("She sipped it, leaving a kiss within the cup, and bestowed it on Claude as it were a decoration") and "that lovely, quick, tender smile which she had given, he knew, to a hundred men, but which remained always a private benediction...