Miss Coynte Of Greene

December, 1973

Miss Coynte of GreeneMiss Coynte of Greene was the unhappily dutiful care taker of a bedridden grandmother. This old lady, the grandmother whom Miss Coynte addressed as Mére and sometimes to herself as merde, had outlived all relatives except Miss Coynte, who was a single lady approaching 30.The precise cause of Miss Coynte's grandmother's bedridden condition had never been satisfactorily explained to Miss Coynte by their physician in Greene, and Miss Coynte, though not particularly inclined to...