The Traitorís Wife
INEZ SEPPALA WORKED as a teller at the National Metals Bank on South Suffolk Street. She kept her blond hair trimmed short; every other night before she went to bed, she showered and set her hair in rollers. She hated the flatness of her thin hair, so in front of the bathroom mirror she dipped into her jar of bobby pins and gazed at the back of her head using a hand mirror to make sure her rollers were set in even rows. She was afraid that her hair would turn out frizzy and frumpy like the First Lady Bess Truman’s hair, but it never did.
Of all her coworkers, she liked Peggy Cork the best. Peggy wore her mousy hair with a simple band that framed her straight bangs, and she always wore the same lipstick color that reminded Inez of fresh red berries. Peggy’s laugh had a
