Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE
Hetty Waits
The Career Woman
I Have a Plan, Daddy
The Album
The Gossip Column
CHAPTER TWO
Yours for Keeps
The Journal Entry
In the Shade of the Bridesmaid
The Plan
CHAPTER THREE
Talking Things Over
Almost a Promise
Poor Thing
A Box of Candied Fruit
CHAPTER FOUR
Probably Both
The Charging Bull
To the Cleaners
Truth
CHAPTER FIVE
Late for Dinner
A Slip in Time
Dinner Disaster
CHAPTER SIX
Dinner Can Wait
Comings and Goings
Dessert
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Lie
Save It
Revisiting Hannah
Why These Dreams?
CHAPTER EIGHT
Happy Anniversary
Trust
The Morning News
CHAPTER NINE
Ignoring the Morning News
Flaky
The Funeral
Bereaved Beauty
CHAPTER TEN
The Train Trip
Replacing Sabrina
I Can’t Bear the Guilt
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Her Hero
Free Counsel and Advice
A Change of Heart
Wrinkle Phobia
CHAPTER TWELVE
Closer than Ever
Guts and Values
Tangled Threads
When Pigs Fly
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Fire in Her Eyes
Fat City
A Dead Cat
A Nose for News
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Consequences
Like Zorro
Questions Without Answers
Friends
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The Holding Pen
The Nonsense Quotation
Dearly Beloved
Missing
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Cautiously
Goodbye
A Total Loss
P.S. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
A. Letter from Hetty to Parents (excerpts)
B. Letter from Max to Morgan
C. Letter from Ignatz to Morgan
D. Letter from Joseph to Katrinka
E. Letter from Hetty to Katrinka
F. Thank you note from Hetty to Melinda
G. Tilly Tells All Gossip Column
H. Note from Morgan to Pippa