Chapter Three 1921 New York, Mrs. Mullridge’s Mrs. Mullridge was stouter than Lucy remembered from their brief first meeting at the Belmont races. It had been one of many such social encounters, arranged by David, to introduce her to the favored subscribers of the opera and theater, and she only …
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Chapter Two 1921 New York, David and Celia’s apartment Lucy sat in the window of David and Celia's apartment opening the morning mail. Her Egyptian dressing gown was tucked up around her bare legs, and she looked to Celia like a child, translucent in the sunlight, an otherworldly creature from …
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Chapter One 1921 New York Her fingers dug into the metal mesh of the cage that contained her. She had always had a fear of dark and small airless spaces. She closed her eyes and strained to hear the faint whirring of machinery, the sound, no louder than a heartbeat, that would signify the time …