Michael Malone - Weebly

herringbone I almost got him at Penney's last April?
Well, the exact same one is on sale now for twentythree
ninety-nine more than it was original-priced a year
ago."
"Mr. Smalter's suits have his name hand-stitched
right into them."
"Yes, it can't go on. You work all your life and year
after year you can afford less and less. People won't
stand for it one of these days, Orchid."
"We're better off than any other country, though,
that's certain."
"People just ought to refuse to put up with it."
Orchid O'Neal and Sarah MacDermott, the former
O'Reilly sisters and granddaughters of the Madder
patriarch Francis O'Reilly, whose freckled progeny
filled a dozen pews at Our Lady of Mercy, were
arguing economic revolution at the A&P. Meanwhile,
Sarah was ringing up the groceries Orchid had
purchased for Ramona Dingley and Sammy Smalter,
whose housekeeper she was until two o'clock, when
she became Evelyn Troyes's housekeeper until six
o'clock, when she became her own. Orchid lived next