This is another story published in 1977 and written around 1930. It is about a woman and a man who meet in a café in Paris, just before he plans to throw himself into the Seine. He explains, "I'm through. No more money, and no more hopes of getting any."
The woman encourages him to start a new life by looking at life differently, where anything could happen, by moving to a new home, by making new friends, by changing. She says, "only desire it, and it works like Aladdin's lamp." And don't use money as an excuse.
She tells him she has had a boring life on the outside, but an exciting one on the inside. He tells her she should become a dancer, and they agree to meet again to see how both of their lives have changed.
Months later, they meet again, and she is a dancer in the chorus. Nothing has changed with him. He tells her his story: a woman once met him when he was down on his luck as he is now and changed him, by believing in him, which brought out his play-writing talents. When he became happy and successful, she lost interest in him and left to work on the next case.
The man wants to wallow in pity and wants the woman to stop believing in miracles and wallow with him.
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