Murder Never Forgets by Diana O'Hehir

Author:Diana O'Hehir
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-09-12T03:21:22+00:00

The hostess is worried that something happened in the restaurant—a rat or a bat or a cockroach—to make my father behave like that. I let her think this.

Daddy tries to tell her that he had an e-mail. He says, “E-mail,” and she says, “Oh, don’t do that.”

Rob and I have had a six-sentence conversation in the lobby. Now he tells my father, “Ed, I certainly would like to take you back and examine you.”

I stare. I’d sort of forgotten that Rob is a doctor.

Daddy says, “That is so good of you. But not at all.”

Rob’s girlfriend sticks her hand out. “Hi. I’m Arlette.”

Henry says, “Hey, everybody almost ready?” Unlikely as it seems, our outing is going to end as it began, with a quiet taxi ride. Henry will probably point out some new shoreline sights.

Rob asks am I sure? And I say, yes, yes, and he says, “I’ll come with you,” and I say, “It’s all right now,” and he tells me he’ll see me tomorrow. Meanwhile, the ladies start piling up into the cab. My father shakes his head. “Carla, I must have left something in that restaurant.” That’s the way he looks, a little troubled, the way you are when you think you’ve lost that ad you were saving for the shopping expedition tomorrow.

I tell him, “No, Father, I’m sure you haven’t,” and he says, “Well, now, if you’re sure, my dear, you always seem to know, and I will once again sit all the way in the back,” and he’s up the van steps and has started wiggling past the middle seats.

I say, “Robbie, thank you.” I remember to tell Arlette it is good to meet her. I look up into the cab after my father who seems okay, just a little bit, I suppose you’d say, quenched. I thank Rob one time more and climb up the van steps after my dad.

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