To G. Fn.

Royal Beating. That was Flo’s promise. You are going to get one Royal Beating.

What could she say about herself and Ralph Gillespie, except that she felt his life, close, closer than the lives of men she'd loved, one slot over from her own?

First published in 1978 with the title Who Do You Think You Are?
Later retitled in the US as The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose