The RequestAlarm spiked through me. What could he possibly want to come here for? “Have the first woman reschedule. And tell Amelia when she arrives.” A dozen years after Roy had violated her, the woman was still terrified of him. “Don’t let her go through the parlor.”
Amelia normally didn’t arrive for many hours. But I had no idea how long the man would be here. I didn’t want her to be confronted with him. “We’ll seat him there.”
“Yes, mum.”
I rushed to my room to get into a house dress and fix my hair. Roy Spadros, here?
* * *
Once done with my hair, I returned to the kitchen. But Mary refused to let me do the dishes. “What if he finds out?”
She seemed genuinely afraid. So I went back to my room and forced myself to read the paper.
RIOT AT ZEPPELIN STATION
Over A Hundred Arrested
