The Four Ms. Bradwells: A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton

Author:Meg Waite Clayton [Clayton, Meg Waite]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Suspense, Literary, Secrets, United States, Female Friendship, Contemporary Women, Sagas, Political Science, Government, Middle-Aged Women, Secrecy, Judges, Selection and Appointment, United States - Officials and Employees - Selection and Appointment, Judicial Branch, Judges - Selection and Appointment - United States
ISBN: 0345517083
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

AFTER I HANG up, it occurs to me that Max must have Internet access. “You don’t have a computer in the study?” I ask, saying the words as I realize I didn’t see a computer there—or anywhere else.

“You want to take a look at that WOWD blog,” he says. “Thought you might but didn’t want to raise it if you didn’t. I’ll grab my laptop from the bedroom for you.”

“Wireless? I can use my BlackBerry.”

“The screen will be too small,” he says.

It wasn’t too small at Dulles Airport yesterday. But as I put my hand to my pocket, I realize my BlackBerry is back at Chawterley anyway.

While Max fetches his computer, I sit on one of the cozy white couches, imaging a crazy wife kept hidden in the bedroom on this remote island where she can’t hurt anyone, like Rochester’s mad Bertha from Jane Eyre. Never mind that in one of the photos I’d noticed—the whole family together at his son’s wedding last summer—Max’s wife didn’t look crazy at all. She looked like she could be a Ms. Bradwell. She looked like someone whose husband I ought not to flirt with, much less do anything more than flirt.

Max returns with his laptop, boots it up for me, and leaves me for a minute on the excuse of checking something in some other room. As the computer chimes to life, I remain facing the bronze sculpture that isn’t a Rodin and beyond it, through the empty space where the wall has been moved away, the Chesapeake. I listen to the lap of the waves, or the movement of water through the landscaping streams, or both, for a long time before typing into the browser a blog address I know all too well. The page loads then, WOWD appearing at the top of the page in a Tempus Sans font that is the exact blue of the sail on the Row v. Wade.

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