Summary

Chapter 7

Ted waits for Magda at their usual meeting place, a steakhouse dedicated to Joan of Arc. Magda had once told him that women love him because he has an obvious lack of hostility that set him apart from most other men. Magda is very perceptive and after only being in his presence for less than an hour she warns him that if he sleeps with Angela Argo she will never speak to him again. Ted is shocked at her brazen announcement and vehemently denies that he has had any such thoughts.

Magda tells Ted that the writing that Angela did in her poetry class was crap. She also tells Ted that the girl is very, very troubled, and that he’d better be careful. Ted asks her to elaborate, and Magda tells him that she is a pathological liar, and a thief...