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on everybody. But, of course, Orchid needed to make
her own ends meet.
So today, as usual, Mrs. MacDermott was getting
ready to drop off her sons at her neighbor's, her sister
at Ramona Dingley's, and herself at the Madder A&P.
The two women squeezed the two children into the
front seat of the patched and spattered car, for its rear
was stuffed with a set of secondhand garden furniture
Sarah had bought at the Argyle Goodwill. She planned
to put it out in her backyard as soon as she and Joe
bought a backyard to put it in. She longed to see how it
would look on the little patio of the little Cape Cod in
Astor Heights that Cecil Hedgerow would give them a
special deal on, if Ernest Ransom would give them a
mortgage.
As Sarah drove off, Luke Packer bounded down
the steps from the far end of the triplex where he lived
with his parents and older sister.
They were all working people. His sister, Susan,
worked for Abernathy & Abernathy. His mother
worked for Dingley Optical Instruments, what there
was left of it. His father worked at the Dingley Club,