of his cruelty shows him in his true calibre. His great desire is to convince himself and everyone else that he is not a coward.

The Lesbian, Inez Serrano, is the most frank of the trio, making her inclinations known at once by stating clearly that she does not care much for men. "I was what is known back there as 'one of those women'" she says of herself. Characteristic of her typo is her expressed desire, during ore of her conversations with the collaborationist, that he not touch her. Inez confesses without trying to make excuses for her actions. One gets the impression that at one time she might have been a rather nice person, although time and circumstances have obviously molded her into one of the less admirable examples of her species. Inez has been condemned to eternal torment for falling in love with a married woman and acquainting her with the lack of qualities in her husband, which presumably caused the bewildered wife to commit suicide. Of the three, your reviewer thought that Inez was the least de serving of being consigned to eternal damnation.

After much reluctance and subterfuge, the frivolous nymphomaniac confesses to having killed her unwanted child by one of her lovers, a younger man than her ageing husband.

The real purpose of these three oddly assorted persons being placed together in one room is discovered when the Lesbian observes, "Some one's missing here the torturer!" The other two realize it, too, and soon come to the correct conclusion that each of them, unable to change their patterns of thinking, habit and behavior, has been carefully selected to disharmonize with his fellow victim. "It's like a cafeteria", the Lesbian remarks, "the customers serve themselves. Each one of us is the torturer for the other two."

The Lesbian, finding herself capable of affection for the beauteous nymphomaniac, finds herself repulsed in favor of the collaborator-journalist. The man cannot find complete satisfaction in the nymphomaniac because she is draw to him only through carnality and cares nothing for him as a man. Thus exists an open enmity between Inez and the collaborationist, rivals for the "affections" of their attractive third party. And the nymphomaniac, who regards herself as higher in social status than her two companions, loathes herself

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