Chapter 65

"Quite a bit. But as I found the post office in a grocery store, and the drug store selling hardware, I wasn't sure whether your window mightn't be a mere blind for the village beauty parlor--if the village boasts such a thing." "Look about you and be convinced." "I'd rather look at you." He sat down comfortably near her own official chair. "Getting stale on this job, just as I thought, eh? You look ten years older. Too bad, but I warned you you couldn't stick it." She laughed. "You can't put that across, Tom. I've…