darkness?
Rosemary
helped,
meanwhile
responding
patiently
to Royal
Dumphry’s
inexhaustible
curiosity
about
Hollywood.
Now – she
was
thinking –
I’ve
earned a
time alone
with him.
He must
know that
because
his laws
are like
the laws
Mother
taught me.
Rosemary
was right
–
presently
he
detached
her from
the
company on
the
terrace,
and they
were alone
together,
borne away
from the
house
toward the
seaside
wall with
what were
less steps
than
