CHAPTER TWELVE
HELEN DID GO TO THE PARTY, BECAUSE this seemed to be the only way she could see Andy, short of calling him at his office and arranging a date behind Liz's back. This Helen wouldn't do. Anyway, she didn't know whether it would work-Andy might turn her down, and that would be a hard blow for her to take.
More and more, her thoughts were centered on him.
Getting away from her house to go to the party was no problem, because Jerry wasn't home that evening. He was out with some woman.
Helen's marriage was in a shambles. There was no use trying to kid herself that it could be saved, or that it was worth saving. Jerry was not the kind of man she needed. The more firmly she realized this, the less important became the little qualities of his which had appealed to her-they were n
