The Diary of an Unloved Wife novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Service Door
"Then I'll come," I said.
"Wear something they'll remember," said Winslow's mother, and hung up.
I wore black again.
This time I wore my mother's pearls with it, all three strands, the little gold shell at the back of my neck.
Malachy wore a rented tuxedo that was tight across the shoulders.
He kept running a finger round the inside of his collar.
"I look like a bouncer at a wedding," he said.
"You look like you'll fall out of it if you sneeze."
"Then nobody make me sneeze."
The gala was in the gold ballroom of a hotel on Copley Square.
There were four hundred people under the chandeliers, and a long table of silent auction lots, and a podium with the Endicott crest on it.
Half of Boston turned to look when I came in.
The old man from number nine sat at a table near the front in an ancient dinner jacket.
Beside him sat a small woman in dark blue silk, her grey bob brushed smooth, with no tray in her hands.
It took me a second to know her.
It was Moira, as his guest.
She caught my eye across the room and nodded once.
The sisters came at half past eight.
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