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"Her name is Alicia and she lives near Livorno, Italy That’s where her family is She and Dad divorced when I was just a kid I lived with her in Italy nine months out of the year and the other three o to college at Vassar I’ve only seen her once a year for the past seven or eight years"

"Does she know about E?"

"I don’t think so, not unless she read about it in an Italian newspaper, and I strongly doubt the story made it there I saw no reason to worry her"

"Your father hasn’t reo Her naer than me"

"You said that E yet?"

"Don’t want to know about Eve, huh? I don’t blaander at you and lick her chops, but not whileOne of my mother’s old friends called me and filled my ears with tales of Eve Lord My uess she’s trustworthy Although maybe she wanted Dad for herself Who knows? Emma plays the piano"

"I’ll buy her one of those two-octave portable pianos tomorrow I’d like to hear her play"

"Thank you, Ramsey"

"Why haven’t you seen your father for three years?"

He swore he could see her stiffen from across the room He said, "Was it because he’d hurt your husband?"

"You’re good at your job"

"Yeah, I a to do with ure out what’s going on here Help me"

"That was part of it"

"That’s a lie I can hear it in your voice"

"All right Louey said he’d take Eain He called him a son of a bitch, as I remember"