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Janette didn’t look at hiood if she applied herself, but Callie’s young, she’s got sooff I think a Pulitzer han" She turned to face him, her arms folded over her chest "She knit me a sweater--her very first effort I still have it"

"Does it look like a sweater, or is it one of those stereotypical things you see that goes on for yards and yards?"

"Nope, it’s a sweater She was good when she elve Haven’t you been to her apartment?"

He shook his head "She’s a civilian, ned to me None of this is social"

"What a waste that seeirl, always has been"

"So special that Mrs Califano didn’t e?"

Janette Weaverton shrugged "Maybe, irl really affected her, affected all of us None of us encouraged Margaret to change her umption--she would have kicked her stepfather’s ass if he’d ever tried anything with her And she really liked Stewart, ad a blueblood like Janette Weaverton talk about kicking ass hed "Oh, I see You think I should speak more demurely, to match my St John suit?"

"What’s a St John’s suit?"

Janette sner label Did you know Callie has a black belt in karate?"

"Yeah, she ht have mentioned it once when she wanted to boot aret did after her sister’s daughter was molested was to enroll Callie with an excellent instructor, to be sure that Callie would never be a victiood , you’re also an excellent listener I’ll bet you et information out of the most obdurate of perpetrators, don’t you?"

"I try, ent Savich who’s theat Quantico One day I ent Savich is all that good? It’s been nearly a week since Stewart’s murder and nearly four days since Danny O’Malley’s "

"He will Justice Califano interacted with a great many people, soquite different to say Lies? Just differences of perception? Sheer perversity?"

"I see what you mean Well, you’d expect that, wouldn’t you? It would be like Bitsy andmarried to the same man We’d both experience hiht of it like that Do we change our behaviors so much with each different person we know?"

"I’d rather eat pizza than think about that," Janette said

CHAPTER 24

THE DOORBELL RANG, and the delivery boy stood grinning from ear to ear with seven pizza boxes piled up to his nose Callie, char tip

Bitsy St Pierre said between aret, I don’t want to have to tell you again" The other three women nodded Ben watched the with six wo he couldn’t re before in his life He decided he liked it

Margaret took a s it Bitsy said rand send-off The President spoke, the Vice President spoke You dealt iven Stewart a wonderful toast with his favorite chane He would have made one of his decision matrixes and concluded he was proud of you Now, eat"

He’d heard thearet at least three or four tiaret Califano took a bigger bite of pizza and actually looked like sheit

Janette Weaverton appeared to be the quietest of the five woh he hadn’t found her reticent or shy at all It was just that the others seehter She seemed preoccupied Yes, that was it