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She's no more Women's Lib than I am -and no less-, very bright and articulate, an about-to-be professional writer (her father is an editor of Fortune; a heritage of literacy if not opinions). I spent some time in Maine (a paradise island called Vinalhaven) with the Marcuses, and Brigid's perspective is fascinating: she has two daughters, one 6, one almost 2, and not especially for her own sake but for theirs she has W's L thoughts. Her oldest child is a son, so the problem of little girls' identity in competition with or opposition to a boy are problems she watches. As I write, I realize that you've met Electa Arenal de Rodriguez; would you be interested in dinner here with the Rodriguezes and Marcuses? They already know one another.