CHAPTER FOUR Today's appointment on her social calendar was something she had been awaiting with ill-concealed eagerness. Mrs. Connie Satterleee, wife of the President of International Electronics Corporation, would he having a friendly visit and tea with Mrs. Grace Richards. Grace's husband Walter B. Richards, was the young, energetic but stodgy Space Equipment Division Manager of I. E. C. For a meeting that promised little more than the usual company gossip and playing of corporation politics, Connie seemed anxious indeed. She kept looking expectantly out of her huge sitting room window down the driveway to the Satterlee mansion. Finally, the maroon Continental convertible she had been awaiting impatiently, rolled up the doorway. Mrs. Grace Richards had arrived. Grace was only twenty

