Now there truly was a picture, Molly thought, exchanging a startled glance with Liza. The dapper, slick, courtroom savior of more than one major South Florida development and the woman who professed to be dedicated to saving the environment from the encroachment of just such developers. Admittedly Tessa was no Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, the well-known, feisty environmentalist, who had been an outspoken proponent of preserving the Everglades well past her hundredth birthday. But Tessa had been widely regarded as antidevelopment. Obviously her ethics, such as they were, had never carried over into her bedroom, something that probably should have been clear from the first indication that she had affairs the way some women changed hairstyles. “No comment?” Ted prodded, obviously pleased that his revelation had rendered them speechless. “What’s to say?” Molly said discreetly. “Do you think that has some bearing on the case?” “Roger Lafferty was here tonight, right?” the reporter said.
