Brett and Jake ride along in the taxi and Brett cannot decide what to do about her relationship with Jake. She loves him terribly, but she cannot stand the fact that they will never be able to be together. Likewise, Jake is torn, since he knows that he can never be with Brett, despite his desperate love for her. Unfortunately, Jake was castrated by enemy fire in World War I, meaning that the two of them can never consummate their love for each other.
After the cab drives Jake and Brett around Paris, they eventually arrive at The Select, another bar, and they find the rest of their party has already arrived and they are drinking happily. Brett immediately enters the company of Count Mippipopolous, who picked up with the party somewhere.....
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