Sins of the Flesh

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For KAREN QUINTAL

All the many loyal and loving years are deeply appreciated.

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“Oh, dear me, no! I don’t want a husband. I like my life as it is—except that I am in need of two new chums.”

Ivy Ramsbottom was an extremely tall woman, though not at all obese; her exact height she declined to give, but Delia put it at about Desdemona’s height, six feet three, and deemed Ivy of the same athletic bent. There the comparison faded; Ivy had curly corn-gold hair, fine features and cornflower-blue eyes. She was so well-dressed that only Gloria Silvestri eclipsed her. Her casual walk-on-the-beach-in-early-summer costume was so perfect that not even a mad scramble after a cat had mussed it.

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