Yes, it certainly sounded like suicide when she just said "Yes", but Clare clarified by saying "I'd do what I want to do more than anything else right now. I'd come up here to live. Harlem, I mean. Then I'd be able to do as I please, when I please."
It was the possibility of that which pushed Irene over the brink. It's near the end, when Irene is still getting ready to go to the party.
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