"We'll never get away with it," Lester said. "His language is too darned premature."
"I don't know why this had to happen to us," Ginny lamented. "It couldn't have come from my side of the family. We've none of us ever been very bright."
Lester looked around at her sharply. "Neither have we," he said.
"Then where did it come from?" Ginny asked.
"Not from heaven," Lester said firmly. "That's certain."
The second week passed, and Ginny recovered sufficiently to be up and about. With apprehension, she relieved Lester of his duties with A.P. Her worst fears, she learned, had not been unfounded.
"He wants the stock reports," she reported to Lester in the kitchen. "Did you give him that copy of Forever Amber?"
"I did," Lester said dully.
"But why, for heaven's sake?"