CHAPTER 5 Acquiescing to Her Father’s Request Priscilla’s first surprise was not just her mother but her father, too, waiting at the airport in San Francisco to greet her. “Daddy!” She threw herself in his arms, and then she embraced her mother. But a moment later she had her hands on her hips as she regarded the two of them. She had flown cross-country to fulfill her father’s request that she advocate with her mother for an end to their estrangement. And he had beaten her to it. But they looked so happy together that Priscilla could hardly reproach him. And who could be angry about an unplanned vacation—her first-time ever visit to San Francisco, one of America’s most fascinating cities? At Ellen’s, Priscilla hugged her sister and then, arm-in-arm they walked out to the kitchen fo

