Blue ink drawing of a woman's face framed by curled hair and two large roses, in a neo-traditional style, shown as a tattoo design on paper.

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Woman portrait with roses in curled hair

Neo-trad · Colour · Flash

A pencil-style drawing in blue ink of a woman's face in profile, looking upwards, with tear lines beneath one eye. Two large open roses and voluminous curls of hair frame the face, with heavy shading on the roses and the hair. The design is drawn on a cream paper ground in a single blue ink with faint construction lines still visible.

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The band at the Palais had been playing the same slow number since eleven, and Dolores Vane had stopped counting the men who asked her to dance. She kept her eyes on the mirror behind the bar, where the roses in her hair caught the light like something spilled. Her sister Marguerite had pinned them there that afternoon, two big blowsy blooms from the market stall on Haymarket, and told her they made her look like a film star. Dolores had said film stars didn't have to wait on a man who wouldn't come.

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At midnight the saxophonist lost his place and started again from the top, and that was when she saw the envelope on the piano lid, face down, with her name written in a hand she knew. Harry Lusk had never once in four years put a thing in writing. She crossed the floor without hurrying, past the couples turning slow in the blue smoke, and picked it up with two fingers as if it might burn.

Inside was a single line and a ticket for the Liverpool train leaving at six. She read it twice, then folded it small and tucked it into the rose nearest her cheek, where the petals were tight and damp with the heat of the room. When she looked up, the mirror showed a woman with dry eyes and a sharp chin, and she decided that was enough for one night. She went to find her coat.

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