Walser wakes up to find that he is being tended to by Lizzie and Fevvers. Fevvers addresses him with a haughty and sharp tone because she thinks that he was the one having intercourse with Lamarck's wife. Too proud to show real jealousy, Fevvers deals with him coarsely instead. Walser refers to her manner as that of "a tart with a twenty-four carat heart." This is the first that they are seeing of one another in Petersburg, and despite Fevvers' attitude, it is clear that they are both subtly pleased about the reunion. Walser is happy to see familiar faces and the familiar elements in Fevvers' dressing room, and she is happy to see that he followed her, in disguise, all the way to Petersburg. Apparently the tigress, "female of the.....
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