[b:Maybe: A Story|114428|Maybe A Story|Lillian Hellman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1293947519l/114428.SY75.jpg|110186] is an explanation of sorts for Hellman's previous memoirs and the factual mistakes in them. In the eighties, [a:Lillian Hellman|66241|Lillian Hellman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1257464297p2/66241.jpg] and [a:Mary McCarthy|7305|Mary McCarthy|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1254084720p2/7305.jpg] were in a legal dispute over comments McCarthy made during an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show on PBS. I remember seeing the show when it aired and searched for a source of conflict between the two and found that there was nothing substantial. They just didn't like each other.

 But there are memories I have of her that I know to be accurate, although, as I have said before, I do not always know what she was saying or if what she said was sometimes based on her fantasies or the fantasies of others. I am certain, for example, what she said about Alex and the baby in the restaurant and so on.
 And once, when we were both about twenty-five, I guess, we met in Small's in Harlem. I don't know who I was with but I know that she came in and sat at the next table with two men. She was in a beautiful loose dress with narrow shoulder straps that were too loose. She was moving to the music when the straps slipped and the top of her dress fell down. It was a fine sight: the beautiful breasts and the high loose piled fair hair. One of the men with her said, "You arrange things well."