Chapter 3
The following week, Jed kept expecting to see Edythe again, or at least her brother Larry. Edythe had aroused his curiosity and his desires. He got edgy and impatient as day after day went by without a word from them or sight of them. They could not simply disappear.
Pomona was a moderate-sized city of 200,000 people. A person could lose himself in it if he tried. But normally Jed ran into the same crowd whenever he went out, his business associates, his clients, his rivals, and Andrea's society friends. Here in this Midwestern city, everyone knew everyone. If a guy got tired of the crowd and wanted to meet someone new, he moved to another city.
Jed had a date with Andrea again for Saturday night. He refused to go again to the Maplewood Country Club.
"Let's go dancing. The Mi
