katherine st asaph

One evening “Stanny” gave Evelyn a thorough tour of his married man’s bachelor pad, occupying several floors in a row house on sketchy West 24th Street, in “the Tenderloin.” One room had mirrors on every wall. Another had a four-poster bed with mirrors in the headboard and the canopy, and yet another room held the red velvet swing that later became infamous. (On the ground floor was the FAO Schwarz toy store, which fact would not be credible in fiction.)