Anne Rivers Siddons by Hill Towns

Author:Hill Towns [Towns, Hill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-05-27T12:38:52+00:00

200 / ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS

as many times as you’ve been here,” I said. “And I don’t want

you to think I don’t like it. I absolutely love it. It casts a spell.

But there’s something, Sam. Something…it isn’t the bridges,

Joe knows that. It’s that…nothing is what it seems. You sense

it instantly. And maybe nobody is who they seem, either, at

least not while they’re here. That’s what he was feeling. He

just picked up on the bridges because…”

“Because he saw a chance to humiliate his wife a little in

front of a select group of her friends?”

“No. Not at all. Nobody else knows about the bridge; Joe

doesn’t know I…I didn’t tell him I’d told you about it. He

wouldn’t have told anybody himself.”

“I would not take any bets on that, Miz Compton Gaillard,”

Sam said. “You ready to get back to work?”

“What are you saying? That he’s told somebody?”

“I’m saying my dear wife has a way of getting the most

astonishing things out of people and sharing them with

others,” he said, grinning. “Can you tip your head back a

little more? You have a nice arch to your neck.”

“You’re absolutely wrong if you think he told Ada or

anybody else.”

I tipped my head back, looking up at the ceiling. He was

silent, working fast.

“How did you meet Ada?” I said presently.

“I literally picked her up on the Spanish Steps,” he said.

“It was the middle sixties and I’d just come to Rome to paint

and find myself and all that shit, and I’d had one New York

show with good reviews and was fuller of shit than a

Christmas goose, and I’d been through every girl who

switched her pretty ass up and down the Spanish Steps.

Painted some of them and went to bed with all of them. And

then one day there she was, in her little black miniskirt and

high heels and white

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