Hollis Jordan reaches over and snaps off the button, drives silently thinking, Of course it was her, couldn’t mistake that giggling on the fourth call. Just giggling — not saying anything; drunk, no doubt. Gawd, Ada, what’s to become of all of us! Thinking: Why can’t Ada just let it go; it happened too far back to be still bugging her. Thinking that and remembering how for years after she married Colonel it was just, “Hello, Hollis,” and “well, hello, Ada,” whenever they met in Paradise; except for two times. And tonight, giggling at him over the telephone — the third time. The first time was a while after Dixon Pirkle married Suzie Barr, and Ada appeared outside Hollis’s house one afternoon like a ghost, sitting in her car looking at his house until he came down off the porch and walked over to her. He said, “Why, hello, Ada. What brings you out this way?” “Dixon got married, you know, Hollis. He’s a doer.” Then he noticed, as he leaned his arms on the edge of the car’s window, that Ada had been drinking; her breath reeked of liquor.
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