CHAPTER 6“How do you do?” Jonas said. He spoke as calmly as he could, hoping his recovery was quick and adequate. As he had never, so far as Philippa Van Holt knew, seen the dead man, a startled amazement at seeing his living replica could only seem strange to her to say the least. To his relief, Franklin Grymes gave him a look almost as startled as his own.
“I see you people have heard about each other,” Philippa said easily. She put her bag and gloves on the table. “I didn’t know people like Agatha Reed told their old beaux about their new ones and vice versa.”
“Leave Miss Reed out of this, Philippa.”
Jonas breathed an inward sigh of relief. If Franklin Grymes was engaged to Agatha Reed, if that fact explained his shocked surprise to Philippa’s satisfaction, it was very good with him.
