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toenails and blouse were red, her scarf and skirt were
white, her blazer and her sling-back open-toe pumps
were blue, as if she had been decorated to
commemorate the bicentennial year.
Pierced through her ears were tiny ruby hearts.
Perfectly she waited.
"If Daddy were in here, he'd take a picture of you,"
said Kate. All Emerald's life people had been taking
pictures of her. Now she always seemed to expect it.
"You look lovely, dear. Have a good time," her
mother told her.
"Have a nice evening," Arthur told Mrs. Ransom.
The couple went to the door. Then Emerald
paused, turned. She raised her hand, diamond twinking,
and said, "Ciao."
"Ciao!" called Sid Blossom with a friendly wave,
and swooped into "What a Swell Party This Is."
chapter 65
In the fold-out bed beside Chin Lam, her sleeping
head pressed in the crook of his neck, her arm across
his thin chest, Maynard Henry lay awake and