Hemingway had a drink with Pascin and two models, sisters.

Pascin later hung himself. Hemingway liked to remember him at the Dôme with the two sisters, drunk, and in a good mood, after working hard all day.

Hemingway had worked hard that day, too, instead of playing the horses. He was feeling virtuous about that.

They invited him to eat with them but he was meeting his wife at the Nègre de Toulouse restaurant where their napkins in the napkin rings were in the napkin rack and the plat du jour that day was cassoulet.

In Paris, then, you could live very well on almost nothing and by skipping meals occasionally and never buying any new clothes, you could save and have luxuries. But at this time I could not afford to go to the races, even though there was money to be made there if you worked at it.

As I say, he felt virtuous about working.

"He's in love with canvases," one of the sisters says about Pascin.

Pascin has worked well that day.

So has the model.

They have all worked well. Now they are drinking.

Soon, they will eat.

At the Nègre de Toulouse Hemingway drank the good Cahors wine, and at the house they drank a Corsican wine that had great authority and a modest price.