Without missing a beat, Sal held up a photo of Alec as a cue card and said. “Did he have a girlfriend?”
“Here’s a thing,” said Pop rather conspiratorially, “we think he was courting. You see, my family, especially my grandmother, Edna, were terrible snobs.”
“Well, that’s true!”
“And, of course, your father wasn’t!”
“Ssh…”
“Alec started courting a young lady, can’t recall her name…Joan maybe…or was her name Jenny…Mabel? Oh, I can’t remember. Anyway, whatever her blasted name was, my grandmother didn’t like the idea. I have no idea why, her family were terribly well thought of as I recall, though, I believe there may have been some scandal way back. I think that might have been enough to make my grandmother forbid Alec from seeing her. Edna said she was a piece of fluff and that he had
