Strangeness of Two Serious Ladies continues

Weirdness of Jane Bowles's Two Serious Ladies continues as Mr and Mrs Copperfield (sorry, had name wrong in yesterday's post) wander thru Panama City (previous day was spent in Colon, Panama), through an obviously dangerous neighborhood that never sees N American tourists - people stare at them as they pass - to a rocky beach. Mr. C sits on a rock, talks about how beautiful it is - but Mrs. C is afraid and wants to leave. He whines at her, says she always spoils his good times. You have to think that here we may be witnessing a version of an argument btw author and her husband, Paul Bowles - anyone who's read him know he was apparently a fearless traveler and wanderer who journeyed to some remote and scary spots, wife or partner in tow - in his novel it all seemed to go OK, but perhaps she has a different version of the events. In any event, Mrs. C is not exactly timid herself - as her goal is to go back to Colon so she can spend more time with the prostitutes whom she's befriended - she's an adventurer in her own, quite different way. (But is she a "serious" lady? I have no idea what Bowles means by that title.) The Copperfields take a long bus ride to a entry point to a Panama jungle, and Mr C is very excited about visiting the jungle - she's not, and they agree that she'll go back to Colon and they'll meet up, eventually, somewhere - all left very unclear. She does go back, meets her two friends, Pacifica and Mrs. Quill (!), and they continue their discussions of the night before. Not sure where this novel is going - and I know we will return to the other serious lady of the thus far entirely unrelated story line - at some point later in the narrative. The strangeness continues - most notably, in Mrs. C's complete indifference to or defiance of some forms of risk and danger and her husband's complete indifference to her.