Chapter Five
“What do you mean you have to go?”
The days flew by as Anne settled into a lovely routine at One Observatory Circle. Her dinner with the First Family had been leaked by the First Lady’s press office and duly noted by the gossip columns. The media’s tone had shifted immediately from “Who is this tramp?” to “Is the nation’s most eligible bachelor finally off the market?” An elegant move by an elegant First Lady.
As the spotlight shifted to the Darlingtons, Ma had swung into action. She’d been very pleased for Anne—other than being a little huffy about finding out through the media rather than directly from her daughter. Anne had called her as soon as the news broke, but CNN had beat her call to Tennessee. There was little the two of them hadn’t shared over the years and her m
