“Is it all right to go to the ladies’?” Rosalie asked.
In bed that night, Carella had trouble falling asleep. He kept thinking of Alfred Allen Chase’s last words in the Q and A.
“You’re the ones who taught me, man.”
It was not that he hadn’t understood what Alfie had meant, or exactly whom he was indicting. It was merely that, as a white man, he had enormous difficulty accepting Alfie’s indictment.
When he finally did fall asleep, he tossed and turned a lot, and his dreams were bad.