“Diamond Harter has written to her husband and asked him to come here. She is very unhappily married—everyone knows that—and I think she is going to try and put an end to it.”
“Put an end to it?”
“A separation, I suppose, or—or a divorce, perhaps.”
“And where, exactly, does Bill Patch come in?”
“I should have thought that was obvious,” muttered Christopher.
“That’s exactly where you’re mistaken, my dear fellow. There’s nothing obvious about any of it. Neither of them are obvious people, and I distrust profoundly the combination of an obvious situation and two such unobvious protagonists. It is quite impossible to predict what their reactions may be.”
I felt rather like Sallie as I spoke, and I also knew that Christopher, by instinct, dislikes and distrusts the use of polysyllabic words.
He looked at me rather disgustedly, but did not say anything.
Nancy Fazackerly went on.
“Of course, it’s impossible not to see that she and Captain Patch are—are always together. But really and truly I believe she’s written—or they both have—to Mr. Harter.”