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Chapter 10: Pearls

The card on the counter said *Mrs. Lauren Boykin, Gaston Street*, and on the back, in a neat hand, *Thursday, four o'clock. Do come.*

I went.

I wore Brendan's coat and my best boots, and I walked the last mile from the bus, because I wanted to arrive angry.

The Boykins' garden was the kind that gets photographed.

Lauren sat at a white wrought-iron table under an arbor of wisteria with a silver teapot in front of her.

Three women in cardigans and pearls sat at the next table, with their heads bent over a crossword and their ears pointed at us.

Kinsley stood at Lauren's elbow, pouring.

"Annabelle," said Lauren. "How good of you to come."

"I came for the tea."

"Sit."

I sat.

Kinsley set a cup in front of me with her eyes lowered.

She wore a pale pink sweater and a headband, and she looked about sixteen.

"I'll be quick," Lauren said. "I know who Brendan Monahan is. The newspaper has been very full of him."

"He's been very full of me," I said.

At the next table somebody coughed into a napkin.

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