"You believe this? That you're deeply in love?...Because your art will display your souls!" (253-254). This is a quote from Madame when Kathy and Tommy go to see her. The way she is being so sarcastic with her remarks makes me think that the deferral is not real at all. Then, when Tommy is explaining that he brought art with him to show to her, she says: "Poor creature. what did we do to you? With all out schemes and plans?" (254). "Creatures?" Really? She herself doesn't even consider them to be humans, so why would anyone else? And what "schemes and plans" is she talking about? It's obvious that others have come to her with this idea, because she sounds completely fed up with all of this already. But there are still a lot of unanswered questions.