Chapter 59

When she got home, Geneva telephoned and said she would come over to see the new fur coat. Unwrapping it, Lisbeth remembered suddenly that she had bought another fur coat once, the squirrel coat, in the hope that Alan would admire it. Geneva admired this one. She did not reproach Lisbeth at all for its impracticality. She said, “It’s the most becoming coat you have had in years. It makes you look very young and innocent--the way you used to look--oh, well, it is a lovely coat. Let’s go to dinner, shall we?” After d…