The Boston order had essentially saved the company and, as a result, Nathan became a frequent visitor and dinner guest at the house. On the third such evening he brought twenty long-stemmed roses, and he grinned with his usual confidence and handed them to her. Mother and Juliette exchanged glanc...
They’d motored there from Vienna and then stopped and climbed off the motorcycle by the white fence for the military pasture. The estate buildings were just a short distance away; barns and stables with horses poking their heads out over half-doors, all looking their way over the chewed and hard-...