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Show 198 her cards down too. "What were you saying, Phyllis?" she asked. "I'm afraid I'm rude. When people talk while I'm bidding, my attention wanders." "Greaves. He's staying with the Satterwhites." "And who is Greaves?" "Mrs Satterwhite*s brother." "Oh?" Harriet's eyebrows rose politely, and she returned to her cards. "I was wondering," Phyllis contineud, "if we'd meet him." Harriet bent toward Evelyn. "I'm waiting, partner." Then turning to Phyllis with a sort of desperate resignation. "Who are you talking about?" "Greaves. Mrs Satterwhite's brother. General Greaves." There came a moment of silence as loud as a thunderclap. "General!" said Harriet. "Oh my Godl" The response startled Evelyn into action, and she found her lips moving. "I pass," she said, and looking up to catch the expression on Harriet's face sat back cowering. She had welched on forces before, but never aroused trauma. The general and Smead continued their pleasures, Satterwhite had assigned his brother-in-law a scout car, commandeered from an MG unit in Yoshimura, in which the visitors explored roads unmapped, forests untapped, villages that had never seen an American. Once they got as far as Lake Ninoye, another night they failed to return, and it was rumored that a geisha-house |