By the time Caroline was eighteen, Lauren and Jessica's marriage had cooled to the point of a once-a-month quickie on afternoons when he wasn't working and she wasn't cocktaillng or at one of her several charities.
One night he came home to find Jessica gone off to a party without him, and Caroline smoking pot with two of her girl friends by the pool. He raised hell with all of them, told the girls to go on home and shoved Caroline off to her room.
She went, but as he was undressing in his bedroom, he heard her again by the pool. He looked out.
Caroline stood on the driving board in a skimpy bikini. She sailed into the water, breaking its surface with a perfect dive. Seconds later her head appeared on the surface and she swam to the rope ladder with powerful strokes. She crawled up, hoi
