CHAPTER I
There was no denying the fact that Honor Carmody liked the boys. No one ever attempted to deny it, least of all Honor herself.
When she finished grammar school her mother and her gay young stepfather told her they had decided to send her to Marlborough rather than to the Los Angeles High School.
The child looked utterly aghast. "Oh," she said, "I wouldn't like that at all. I don't believe I could. I couldn't bear it!"
"My dear," her...
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