Summer at the Lake by Greeley Andrew M

Author:Greeley, Andrew M. [Greeley, Andrew M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Mystery, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781429912143
Amazon: 1429912146
Goodreads: 7846591
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 1997-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Leo

“I’m worried about him, Lee,” Angie Nicola sighed, the movement in her luscious breasts sending a shiver through me. “He’s so serious, so…”

“Melancholy?”

“That’s right. His heart just isn’t in the fun we are having this weekend or any other time. He pretends to be part of everything. But his mind is far away somewhere else thinking about God and death and other depressing things like that.”

Like her mother, Angie wore two-piece swimsuits. While they were nothing like the bikinis of today—in fact they were solidly constructed girdles and bras—they still revealed a lot more than did other swim fashions, particularly when the woman in question, like Angie, combined a china figurine delicacy with a succulent body.

The white outfit with lace trim she was wearing that day hinted at lingerie, which made her all the more appealing.

Maybe I should take her to “Skinny-dip Beach,” I reflected. Then I decided that it wouldn’t be a very good idea.

That night, while we were sitting on the deck, I asked Packy about Iris Clare.

“I think she’s just a lonely and unhappy woman who tried to drown her misery in drink. Now that she’s given it up, she acts a little strange.”

“Why is she so lonely and unhappy? She has a rich husband and all the possessions a woman could want. She’s beautiful and men admire her. What’s missing?”

“I don’t think,” Pack chose his words cautiously, “that Doctor Clare pays much attention to her. She was a pretty nurse from down-state that he married at the same age that his father and grandfather married pretty nurses. Philly is his world and vice versa. It’s like the wife and mother doesn’t exist—a decoration in the house of which you must be careful, nothing more.”

“That’s what your parents think?”

He laughed. “I couldn’t make that up myself, could I?”

“You agree?”

“Pretty much. She’s a bit of a tease, but she doesn’t mean anything by it.”

Having left the seminary because I didn’t want to have to deal with people and their problems, this was my summer for dealing with people and their problems. Phil was worried, in a sincere but stupid kind of way, about his mother’s infrequent Mass attendance. I reassured him that it might be a different matter for converts than for cradle Catholics—especially, as I did not add, if one became a Catholic because one wanted to marry Doctor Philip Clare.

Then one night in the forest while we were drinking beer, he asked me another favor after he had explained at great length how his father and Mr. Murray and Mr. Nicola were going to make big money in the upcoming economic boom from a shopping plaza they were planning in a northern suburb of Chicago.

When he had explained to me that a shopping plaza was a group of stores around a big parking lot, I told him that it might be a good idea but it would never work—which goes to show you what a brilliant prophet the future author of The Big Change really was.

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