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Authors: Mary Higgins Clark
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I was responsible for it or not. I believe that at this point I have earned the right to know what really happened that night and why. I need to try to understand my own actions and reactions. Maybe after that I’ll be able to go on. I have to try to put together for myself something that will resemble a normal life.”
Molly got up, went into the kitchen, and returned with the morning paper. “Maybe you’ve seen this. It’s the kind of thing that will follow me throughout my life.”
“I’ve seen it.” Jenna pushed the paper aside and took Molly’s hands. “Molly, a hospital, like a person, can lose its reputation because of a scandal. All the stories about Gary ’s death, including disclosure of his affair with a young nurse, followed by your trial, hurt Lasch Hospital
badly
. It’s doing a good job for the community, and Remington Health Management is flourishing at a time when a lot of other HMOs are in deep trouble. Please, for your sake, for the sake of the hospital, call off Fran Simmons and forget about finding Annamarie Scalli.”
Molly shook her head.
“Just
consider
it, Molly,” Jenna urged. “Look, you know I’ll back you up no matter what, but please at least
consider
Plan A.”
“We go in to the city, and I get a makeover. Right?”
Jenna smiled. “You bet.” She stood. “Okay, I’d better be on my way. Cal will be looking for me.”
Arm in arm they walked to the front door. With her hand on the knob, Jenna hesitated, then said, “Sometimes I wish we could go back to Cranden and start all over, Moll. Life was a lot easier then. Cal is different from you and me. He doesn’t play by the same rules. Anything or anyone that causes him to lose money becomes the enemy.”
“Including
me?”
Molly asked.
“I’m afraid so.” Jenna opened the door. “Love you, Molly. Be sure to lock up and turn the security system on.”
14
Tim Mason, the thirty-six-year-old sports announcer for NAF-TV, had been on vacation when Fran first started at the network. Raised in Greenwich, he had lived there briefly after college, while he worked for a year as a cub reporter for the
Greenwich Time
. It was at that point that he realized that the sports pages were where he wanted to be, and so he switched to a sports-reporter job at a newspaper in upstate New York.
Broadcasting for the local station there followed a year later, and over the next dozen years, a progression of stepping-stone jobs brought him to his big break, the sports desk at NAF. In the tristate area, its hour-long evening news program was already making impressive dents in the ratings of the three major networks, and Tim Mason soon became known as the best of the best of the new generation of sports commentators.
Rangy and with uneven features that gave him a boyish appeal, affable and easygoing by nature, Tim turned into a type-A personality when observing or discussing a sports event, which created a bond with ardent sports fans everywhere.
When he dropped into Gus Brandt’s office the afternoon he came back from vacation, he met Fran Simmons for the first time. She still had her coat on and was filling Gus in on her visit that morning with Molly Lasch.
I
know
her, Tim thought, but from where?
His prodigious memory bank instantly furnished the facts he was seeking. He had started working at the
Time
in Greenwich the same summer that Fran Simmons’s father, Frank Simmons, faced with the disclosure that he had embezzled library funds, shot himself. The gossip in Greenwich was that he’d been a social-climbing bootlicker who used the money trying to make a killing in the market. The scandal died down quickly, however, once Simmons’s wife and daughter moved out of Greenwich almost immediately thereafter.
Looking at the attractive woman she had become, Tim was sure Fran wouldn’t know him from a hole in the ground, as his grandmother used to put it, but he found himself curious as to what kind of person she’d turned out to be.
Molly got up, went into the kitchen, and returned with the morning paper. “Maybe you’ve seen this. It’s the kind of thing that will follow me throughout my life.”
“I’ve seen it.” Jenna pushed the paper aside and took Molly’s hands. “Molly, a hospital, like a person, can lose its reputation because of a scandal. All the stories about Gary ’s death, including disclosure of his affair with a young nurse, followed by your trial, hurt Lasch Hospital
badly
. It’s doing a good job for the community, and Remington Health Management is flourishing at a time when a lot of other HMOs are in deep trouble. Please, for your sake, for the sake of the hospital, call off Fran Simmons and forget about finding Annamarie Scalli.”
Molly shook her head.
“Just
consider
it, Molly,” Jenna urged. “Look, you know I’ll back you up no matter what, but please at least
consider
Plan A.”
“We go in to the city, and I get a makeover. Right?”
Jenna smiled. “You bet.” She stood. “Okay, I’d better be on my way. Cal will be looking for me.”
Arm in arm they walked to the front door. With her hand on the knob, Jenna hesitated, then said, “Sometimes I wish we could go back to Cranden and start all over, Moll. Life was a lot easier then. Cal is different from you and me. He doesn’t play by the same rules. Anything or anyone that causes him to lose money becomes the enemy.”
“Including
me?”
Molly asked.
“I’m afraid so.” Jenna opened the door. “Love you, Molly. Be sure to lock up and turn the security system on.”
14
Tim Mason, the thirty-six-year-old sports announcer for NAF-TV, had been on vacation when Fran first started at the network. Raised in Greenwich, he had lived there briefly after college, while he worked for a year as a cub reporter for the
Greenwich Time
. It was at that point that he realized that the sports pages were where he wanted to be, and so he switched to a sports-reporter job at a newspaper in upstate New York.
Broadcasting for the local station there followed a year later, and over the next dozen years, a progression of stepping-stone jobs brought him to his big break, the sports desk at NAF. In the tristate area, its hour-long evening news program was already making impressive dents in the ratings of the three major networks, and Tim Mason soon became known as the best of the best of the new generation of sports commentators.
Rangy and with uneven features that gave him a boyish appeal, affable and easygoing by nature, Tim turned into a type-A personality when observing or discussing a sports event, which created a bond with ardent sports fans everywhere.
When he dropped into Gus Brandt’s office the afternoon he came back from vacation, he met Fran Simmons for the first time. She still had her coat on and was filling Gus in on her visit that morning with Molly Lasch.
I
know
her, Tim thought, but from where?
His prodigious memory bank instantly furnished the facts he was seeking. He had started working at the
Time
in Greenwich the same summer that Fran Simmons’s father, Frank Simmons, faced with the disclosure that he had embezzled library funds, shot himself. The gossip in Greenwich was that he’d been a social-climbing bootlicker who used the money trying to make a killing in the market. The scandal died down quickly, however, once Simmons’s wife and daughter moved out of Greenwich almost immediately thereafter.
Looking at the attractive woman she had become, Tim was sure Fran wouldn’t know him from a hole in the ground, as his grandmother used to put it, but he found himself curious as to what kind of person she’d turned out to be.
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