Superior Women by Alice Adams

Author:Alice Adams [Adams, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Women College Students, Women College Students - Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780394536323
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 1984-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

22

Although she is not sure what she would have expected, Megan is still vastly surprised, arriving at Janet and Adam Marr’s White Plains house. In the first place, she thinks, why White Plains? She has visited them before this in a variety of rented houses (they seem to move a lot; “our wandering Jew complex,” Adam calls it) but in places that seemed somehow more plausible: Wellfleet and Provincetown, Westhampton, Westport. But now they have bought this staggeringly large house in White Plains.

With all Adam’s new money and splashy success, three Broadway hits in two years, Megan would have expected a big house, of course, but this house is remarkably large, even for Adam’s fantasy standards. Set far back from the street (North Broadway: could Adam have chosen a house for its street’s name?) its dark wings spread out onto what can only be called grounds, acres of immaculately tended green lawn (a Henry James, English lawn, thinks Megan) with ancient sweeping trees. In one corner there is a clump of formal shrubbery surrounding a birdbath, and leading up to the house is a formally patterned brick walkway.

Megan now feels silly, walking up all that way, with her suitcase. She had the cabdriver let her out at the entrance, but as she approaches the house she sees that there is a circle in the driveway where he could perfectly well have turned around (where anyone else’s cab would have driven up and turned around). Drawing closer, walking slowly, she sees too that the “grounds” are far more extensive even than she saw at first; past the porte cochere and the parking circle there are what look to be an orchard and a garden. There must be at least three or four acres, in the middle of this expensive suburb.

The house is fronted with a very long porch; at one end a long swing hangs, with a table and some chairs. But no person is in sight. Megan begins to wonder about the wine she brought, a Beaujolais; in Paris they considered Beaujolais a real step up from their usual vin ordinaire—but in White Plains, in this house? Not to mention her clothes: could Adam and Janet, conforming to their house, possibly have begun to dress for dinner?

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