Sublime

Viola imposed upon her lover but a short probation. They were married, as was becoming, with great privacy, – almost with secrecy, – in the hope perhaps, as was waggishly remarked at the time, that the late Mrs Lloyd wouldn’t hear of it.

Hannah drove a battered black Toyota that had been pulled apart and put back together so many times it constituted a philosophical conundrum.

Jacaranda tried to focus on Janet Wilton but all she could remember other than that voice was that the woman was wearing ruby stud earrings. $1,200 Jacaranda called Janet Wilton collect as Janet had told her to. The following day, Jacaranda mailed an article she’d written that she thought maybe somebody might like to Janet.