Heydrick went to his gardener’s shed for tools to repair the damage, and Katherine signaled frantically for Armagnac and Jac to accompany her inside the house. Once there, she hissed, “We’re going to have a truce here, understand? We’re not going to disgrace ourselves in front of our guests! We’re Boyles, remember. So behave!” The old lady hurriedly combed her hair with her fingers. “At least it wasn’t the Margaret Merrill roses. If they’d crushed the flower I was going to exhibit, I'd have died.”Sulkily, Jac sat on the couch. With a scornful glance at her, Mrs. Marshpool went off to replace the phone cord. “They’re coming in after us,” Rose announced as she entered with Bert. “But first they need to fetch a few things from their car.” “Who are they?” said Jac, not meeting anyone’s eyes.Just then the young man in the Zorro hat walked into the living room. A full-grown calico cat was lying across one of his forearms, and a kitten was squirming inside his coat pocket.
