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For days, she was horribly uneasy She’d always had an anxious relationship with uilty every tirowing up in Wallis, ative and oft-repeated phrase, “We can’t afford it” And the reality was, they couldn’t So when , it was supposed to be saved for the proverbial rainy day

She wished she could have talked to Henry about her dilemma, but she already knehat he would say: Don’t do it

But if she didn’t do it, ould Jonny do? Would he leave her?

She decided to put off her decision until she’d at least gone with Jonny to Vegas to look at the space

And so, despite her Monica deadline, and without telling Henry, she snuck off with Jonny to Vegas three days later The potential restaurant space was located in a major casino, where she and Jonny stayed in the Joker Suite, which contained a fountain that could be turned into a Jacuzzi They ray suits, one of whom had known Jonny for years

This otten ambler

Please, no, Pandy thought Ga made her want to cry

She wanted to cry when she saw the saht and then again at eight the next reat, but it was on the backs of woas wealth was built It was all those little dollars from those little old ladies who should have known better And while Pandy would re, was considered a choice, it still somehow didn’t seem fair

And it would turn out that, like those little old ladies at the slot machines, she, too, “should have known better”

Instead, she wrote out a check for two hundred thousand dollars Nevertheless, before she handed it to Jonny, she did scold hione before she’d even finished the third Monica book This was a one-tiain After all, she had only been paid a quarter of her advance so far, and wouldn’t get another quarter until she completed the book

Jonny laughed this off, but pointedly tiptoed around her for the next three weeks so she could finish the manuscript

Which she did Receiving the check teeks later

And once again, Jonny was the loving, affectionate, caringher with a pair of one-carat dia news: Architectural Digest wanted to photograph their loft They wanted to do a ten-page spread, featuring Pandy and Jonny as the perfect example of a modern New York couple The issue would come out on Valentine’s Day

It was all so very Monica again, especially as the other Monica—SondraBeth Schnowzer—and the so-called love of her life, Doug Stone, had ed in the past nine months

Pandy had barely noticed