21
Early the next morning, while Turner and Lilian were still sleeping, the original Lilian Bailey was sitting on the terrace of a Hollywood coffee shop with her friend, Christine. It was a sunny afternoon with small fleecy clouds in the sky. Lilian liked the Hollywood weather. She preferred it to London’s.
She wore a short, blue skirt, a white T-shirt, and blue canvas shoes. None of her clothes were particularly expensive, but they fit well and were always in impeccable harmony with each other.
Christine was Lilian’s only girlfriend from before the time she had become famous—that’s why she was her best and most trusted friend.
Christine’s family had moved from England to LA, like Lilian’s. Her father was the head of an oil company’s communication department and her mother was a film s
