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376 / A M E S [1914]a fruit store owner named Nicolas Santos, with whom he was acquaintedin Trieste and in Zurich. Signora Santos stayed indoors all day to preserveher complexion, for which she mixed her own creams. That Mrs.Santos had a share in Mrs. Bloonywas an open secret in the Joyce familylater.* 48But the_seductiveness of-Molly tame, it seems, from SignorinaPopper. For the Spanl^TlTIalTtyTnTier. Jeyce drew upon one of the many"Slaughters of Matt Dillon, an old friend of his family who is mentionedin Ulysses too. This daughter had been in Spain, smoked cigarettes, andwas considered a Spanish type. 49^If bits and pieces of Mrs. Chance, Signora Santos, Signcfrina Popper,and Matt Dillon's daughter helpeji-+eyce to design the outer Molly ^Bloonlhe had a model at home for N|plly's jjiind. Nora Joyce had a similar-giftfor concentrated, pungent expression", and Joyce delighted in it as muchas Bloom did. Like Molly she was anti-intellectual; and like Molly shewas attached to her husband without being awestruck. The rarity of capitalletters and the run-on sentences in Molly's monologue are of courserelated to Joyce's theory of her mind (and of the female mind in general)as a flow,in contrast to the series of short jumps made by Bloom, and ofsomewhat longer ones by Stephen. But he had in mind as well Nora'scarelessness in such matters.Joyce also returns to the subject that had so bothered him in his earlyyears of living with Nora, her refusal to recognize a difference betweenhim and the other young men she had known. Bloom observes this characteristicin Molly, but Molly manifests it independently as well.Throughout her monologue Joyce lets her refer to various men she hasknown chiefly as 'he,' with only occasional indication of a change of theperson involved. Her husband and her past lovers, among whom Mulveyof Galway makes an unexpected appearance, are speedily interchangedin her mind. At the end of her monologue she remembers the suprememoment in Bloom's courtship of her, whenhe asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first only looked out over thesea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didn't know of Mulveyand Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves . . . andGibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I putthe rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yesand how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as wellhim as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again. . . .The 'he' who kissed her under the Moorish wall was Mulvey and notBloom; but it is Bloom of whom she says, i thought well as well him asanother.' Molly, like Nora, fails to differentiate, though she is paradoxi-* The Santos family moved to Marseilles. In an unpublished letter to Sylvia Beach ofOctober 13, 1922, Joyce wrote from that city, 'Penelope is here and flourishing. I havenot seen her for eight years.'