"Psychology" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield.
He tells her this is the only place he pays attention to in terms of its furniture and so on.
They then talk about the state of the novel as a literary genre - coming to the conclusion that the psycho-novel is shoddy.
She feels anguished about possibly having failed in not following suit with that genre however, and he leaves.
Characters female playwright male novelist the playwright's friend' an elderly virgin, a pathetic creature who simply idolized her The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.