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"Apparently not" I slid the paper off the table and into my inside jacket pocket "It doesn’t oes into effect if Jack runs for senator, not governor"

"I’ve been thinking about it almost constantly since I received the e-h, won’t you, McKenzie?"

"You knoill But, Zee, I gotta ask, why o to the state, not why you cah"

"C’ as a politician’s wife, I’ve learned this--plausible deniability I go to a private investigator, someone that can be compelled to talk, and the o to you, an old friend frohborhood, who’s to know, and if they did?" She shrugged

"I could rat you out?"

"No Not you"

"How do you know?"

"Because you never told anyone why you broke up withof the senior prom, not in all these years" She smiled at me "It’s true, isn’t it? You’ve never told anyone Not even your good friend Bobby Dunston"

"Not even Bobby"

"And you never told anyone about us"

"No"

"Most men would have Certainly most ed about it every chance they could Not you"

"Not me"

"You’re an honorable man, McKenzie You were an honorableme a compliment, so I said, "Thank you"

"Do you ever think of that evening?"

"Yes"

"What do you think?"

The question ainst the back of the wooden booth "Let’s just say I cherish it and let it go at that"

"Do you really?"

I nodded

"I always feel guilty"

"Why?"