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Show -129- sized their barrenness. He thought again about his coming meeting with his wife's brothers and sisters. All of them were younger than she? One sister had been older? but she was estranged from the family, and would not be there? There were two brothers and two sisters who could be? Both brothers farmed land in Utah left them by their father? but one of the brothers? like their father? was also an attorney? The two sisters? one a year or two younger than the Professor's wife, the other the "baby" of the family? 1 were married to husbands who worked for Utah business firms? There was mixed north and south Briton blood in his wife's family? and two of these four brothers and sisters were dark complected; the other two, like his wife, light. The house where his sister-in-law lived was in a typical middleclass district? where the houses, although not identical as were the box houses on the hills? were similar enough that the Professor had learned to identify hers by a tall pine tree? topped by a small T?V? antenna on an adjoining lot? All had neatly trimmed front yards? with azelia? camellia? and hydrangia bushes planted across the house front, rose bushes beside the driveways? and fenced in backyards with bar-baque equipment? an occasional badminton court or swimming pool? and usually a lone citrus tree? There was only a single automobile in the driveway when he arrived? so he drove in beside it? his Mercedes facing the |
