The Body In The Big Apple by Katherine Hall Page

Author:Katherine Hall Page [Page, Katherine Hall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Usenet, C429, Kat, Exratorrents
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Richard couldn’t meet her until nine, which was fine with Faith. Garden City had left her feeling drained, more relieved than frightened now. She was at the stage where she was imagining all the things that could have happened to her and hadn’t. She wanted to take a long, hot bath and a long, warm nap—under the quilt Emma had left on the couch.

The phone rang. It was her sister. She sounded upset. A highly unusual state for her. Faith remembered with a pang that she had never called Hope to arrange a time to have dinner with Phelps. Maybe she should ask if they were free tonight? They could come to the Algonquin afterward. No, scratch that thought.

“It’s about Phelps—”

“I know. I’m really sorry I didn’t get back to you about dinner, but it’s been crazy.”

“No—or rather, I mean yes. Let’s have dinner together sometime. But he just called, and I’m in a quandary about what to do. This kind of thing has never happened to me before.”

It sounded like she needed more than simple advice to the lovelorn.

“What’s wrong?”

“Probably nothing. It’s just that Phelps has the chance to invest in—”

Faith interrupted again. It was getting to be a habit.

“He wants to borrow money?”

“Yes, rather a lot of money.”

“This is an easy one. A no-brainer. You know the golden rule. Never loan money to men, especially the ones you’re dating.”

“I know, I know. But it’s a short-term loan. With interest. His lawyer will draw up the papers.”

“This sounds like more than ‘rather a lot’ of dough! What does he need it for?”

“He has the chance to get in on the ground floor of a terrific new software company. It all makes sense, except—”

“Except he doesn’t have the money and wants to borrow it from his girlfriend.”

There was silence on the other end. Faith didn’t know whether Hope was enjoying the appellation or pondering her decision.

“Look, sweetie, I’m not just being flip. Think about it. You loan him the money and he can’t pay it back. This places a strain on the relationship and you break up. You loan him the money and he does pay it back, but he’s always aware he was dependent on you for his new good fortune or whatever. Men don’t like that kind of feeling, so you break up. Now there is also the possibility that your lighthearted refusal to loan him any money—Mother always said never do things like this; you can even hum a few bars of that other classic, “Mama said there’d be days like this”—will cause him to break up with you, too. But you’ll still have your money and will have saved even more on Doritos, which you know you eat when you’re depressed.”

“Oh, Fay, life is so simple for you!”

“What!” Faith exclaimed in astonishment.

“Well, you always know what to do.”

This was a complete revelation. Faith viewed her younger sib as the one with the Filofax lobe, the life plan. Faith tended to make snap judgments, go on a

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