CHAPTER 4
IT WAS LATE afternoon when Caroline headed back to kindergarten. With the car top folded, she drove down Wisconsin Avenue as a pleasant breeze combed her hair. The air quality declined with the elevation towards Georgetown, a premonition of a mottled summer of heat and humidity. The stop-and-go traffic allowed her to consult a clutter of notebooks on the passenger seat. Try as she might, her usual serenity of mind was absent. She looked around instead.
The expense-account crowd was out in force, packing the shops and restaurants. Suddenly she missed her spring evenings with Robert. During the intellectually dormant summer months, they’d do the town with all his remarkable friends. They’d hobnob in Hill bars and watch the give and take among the young collegiate interns living r
