"What about the baby at the Homer place?"
"Not due until Sunday. I'll leave my seat number at the box office,
anyhow."
"What are you going to see, Dick?" Mrs. Crosby asked. "Will you have
some dumplings?"
"I will, but David shouldn't. Too much starch. Why, it's 'The Valley,' I
think. An actress named Carlysle, Beverly Carlysle, is starring in it."
He ate on, his mind not on his food, but back in the white house on
Palmer Lane, and a girl. Lucy Crosby, fork in air, stared at him, and
then glanced at David.
But David did not look up from his plate.