After she saw Vivien Leigh play a lady-in-waiting in Queen Elizabeth's court in "Fire Over England," she went home, tied her comforter around her waist in an imitation of court dress, and paraded up and down the corridor for hours.
At least Gray has no dearth of comforters: her fiancé's three best friends are all at the ready.
Similarly, Spark's one serious venture into autobiography, Curriculum Vitae, covering the 39 years to the publication of The Comforters, her first novel, is as bald a summary of her life as its title makes it sound.
The sex trafficking victim conjures up an image of a sweet, wholesome little girl in bed with her down comforter and her loving mom and dad in the other room watching television when the boogieman reaches through her bedroom window and kidnaps her.
I also uncharacteristically indulged her by buying an expensive comforter for her bed at school to make her feel cozy and comfortable, a somewhat extravagant furry hat to keep her warm and looking chic and a new Italian leather wallet to replace the $20 one she used all through high school.
In his forthcoming book Ice Bear, Michael Engelhard relates the sensational story of Karoline Wolf, who "committed suicide by polar bear" at Frankfurt zoo in 1891, undressing and climbing into the den where her "singularly chosen, terrible comforter" shredded her flesh.
Paul show, she changed into sweatpants, curled up inside a silk comforter on her tour-bus couch, and checked her page for new comments from fans, which she answers herself.
Now she is on the couch, not moving from the couch, reclining on the couch during the day and sleeping there at night, in her nightgown, with the TV on until dawn, a comforter over her, toe to neck.
She stared around herself, still safely in her dream, and then she lay back down, balling up beneath the comforter with her back to me.
She spoke with reporters while propped up in a dormitory bed at Seton Hall University, a blue and white comforter covering her while she sipped apple juice through a straw.
