He couldn’t know Con had left, that she was planning to follow. A woman would dress to go into town shopping or for lunch.
“Figgered maybe neither one of you was here. Tried to call earlier but there wasn’t any answer. Thought I’d just run up and find out. Vinnie might as well be sitting out in the car reading his Superman as in the office.”
And if neither had been here, what would he have done? Sent out a short-wave call for them as if they were criminals? She stiffened but she smiled at him. “The phone evidently waked me but too late.”
Her half-packed grip in the bedroom suddenly loomed so large in her mind that she wondered he could not see it printed on her face. She didn’t know if it were visible from the chair in which he was and she didn’t dare turn to see. She knew she’d left th
