Chapter TEN
"It's all over," Tanner said when he and Denise were alone in their bedroom. "Yes - yes, I know."
"Rotten things- disloyalty-deceit, all those things, they're bound to get found out one way or another," Tanner said.
Denise did not answer. She glanced at the floor.
"Isn't that right?" he asked.
"Yes. Yes, that's right," she replied softly, feeling as if she were announcing her own death sentence.
She raised her head and watched as Tanner moved across the room and stood by the window, looking out into the awakening day much as if he could see its multi-colored splendor.
Denise wondered why she had followed Tanner back to the house. She wondered what possessed her to remain. Then she decided that it was almost a matter of obedience, that she had no will of her own except th
