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didn't, but still.
Well, what can women do but grin and bear it?
Okay, well, tell him now he's back I'd like to get Joe
home at a decent hour. Honey, good-bye and did I tell
you, we're going to the lake tomorrow if you feel like
coming? You and little Francis could sit off by
yourselves somewhere and read. You know, that little
bookworm came right up and told me he wished he had
you for a mother, can you believe that?"
Sarah, back at work in her kitchen, wondered
about the telephone call. It struck her that she had never
known Judith to call anyone, much less demand privacy
to do so. Was she involved with someone? Oh, it
wasn't possible! Anyhow, how could she be having an
affair with a man and have to look up his number in the
phone book, which was still out on the counter? A man
whose name began with an A or a B. Over the gunfire
of the television and the clatter of her sons it had been
difficult to hear any part of Judith's conversation, not
that Sarah had listened, but she had caught the name
Chin Lam. What was it between Judith and Chinkie?
You'd think Chinkie was some long lost relation the