CHAPTER NINEWe went out. Not precipitately…but I don’t think that either of us was sorry to go. I didn’t wonder now that Lucy Lee was so upset.
“I take it Mr. Thorp was pretty much under Sandra’s spell,” Colonel Primrose said as he went along the crape-myrtle-grown path to the big house where Sandra and Jim had lived with Alice Gould.
I don’t know whether Colonel Primrose was surprised at seeing all the Bishop family there in Alice Gould’s long cool living room or not. I was. Not to see Rodman Bishop and George so much, because Rodman and Alice had been very good friends—there’d even been some romantic gossip about them when I was young, after Rosemary and Chapin’s mother died. But it was strange seeing Rosemary and the tall dark man she was going to marry there. He wasn’t saying much, i
