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an affair with a patient!
"On the other hand. I suppose I should be
grateful," she said with as plastic a smile as I had seen
her wear. "After all, if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't
have Willow, now would we?"
Mother took no offense at anything Aunt Agnes
said. Afterward, she whispered to me and revealed
that my father had "described your aunt to a T." When Bunny arrived, she and my aunt took to
each other immediately, siding with each other at
every opportunity. That, too, brought smiles to
Mother's and my faces. Amou couldn't be idle and
went into the kitchen to prepare one of her Portuguese
chicken dishes with piri-piri sauce, a hot sauce so
delicious that everyone raved about it.
Margaret followed me about all day. She
explained at least a half dozen times why her husband
was unable to attend my wedding. Pressing business
concerns kept him from leaving Savannah. From the
way she spoke of him and their marriage, it seemed
that he devoted 90 percent of his time to his work and
10 percent to her, but she didn't seem to mind. She
went on and on about her social activities, her charity
functions, her full life, which to me sounded like a life
full of activities designed to avoid facing reality. Margaret was intrigued with Linden, who didn't
give her a moment of attention. however.
"Is he dangerous?" she asked in a whisper. "Only if you pester him," I said. She believed
me and kept her distance.
To keep her occupied and get her out of my
shadow, I introduced her to the Butterworth twins and
later to most of the Club d'Amour. She got along well
