![]() ![]() She looked a little like the actress Jean Simmons. But the day was young! And what a setting she had for her imminent enlightenment! And what a picture she herself presented! Jane was tall and slender and had rich brown hair and high cheekbones and wide brown eyes. Being barely twenty-one years old and new around here, Jane Conrad knew very little about this particular subject, since nobody ever talked about it. Something was part of the official Wife Lingo for tiptoeing blindfolded around the subject. Alice just called me, and she says something's happened …" She picked up the telephone and began relaying this same message to some of the others. ![]() Have you heard anything?" That was the way they phrased it, call after call. Listen, I just got a call from Betty, and she said she heard something's happened out there. Within five minutes, or ten minutes, no more than that, three of the others had called her on the telephone to ask her if she had heard that something had happened out there. ![]()
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