Chapter 6
Catherine was happier than she had been in a long time, and others had started to notice. She was always gracious—that she was as kind to herself was less certain—but her appearance and manner had taken on a new radiance. It might’ve been the dog days politically, but in Katelandia, it was eternal spring.
“You’re positively glowing, Katie Darling,” Karen Sampson noted when she took her to lunch at the Rosewood hotel in Georgetown after breezing into town for the day. “Is it some new cosmetic procedure? You would tell me, wouldn’t you?”
Catherine shot her a sideways glance. “Karen, you know I don’t go in for that sort of thing. I mean, honestly, do you think I’d look like this if I did? Believe me, it takes a lot of hard work to look this mediocre. No, I’m just in a good place
