This beauty is Pauline Pfeiffer, the second wife of Hemingway's. She was
4 years' older than Hemingway while Hadley was almost 9 years' older.
Wikipedia does not devote as much text to Pauline as it does to Hadley.
The last chapter of the "Feast", Hemingway reflected how he got involved
with her. He described the active and happy winter life his family had
in the high mountains of Austria. Everything went so well but suddenly
"the riches" came and unknowingly, the peace and tranquility and balance
were broken. I can sense the regret Hemingway expressed intentionally
or unintentionally from the lines. He admitted that he fell in love with
Pauline while still in love with Hadley. The newness and strangeness of
Pauline attracted Hemingway. It seems also that Pauline got so close
with Hemingway couple by becoming a temporary best friend of Hadley's so
she let down her guard (if she ever had one up) and allowed Pauline to
live with them in that winter. Too bad Pauline let her down. Hemingway
still had mixed feelings to both women when he wrote the book because he
said that Pauline "... unknowingly, innocently and unrelentingly sets
out to marry the husband." He described how the seemingly innocent
mingle of the three of them became disastrous for the family.
"So
you live day by day and enjoy what you have and do not worry. You lie
and hate it and it destroys you and every day is more dangerous, but you
live day to day as in a war."
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