“Ruth, it’s me, Toby.”
“I know. How are you?”
“I’m O.K.,” I said. “I thought I’d take the boys to a movie Saturday night. No horror movies. I promise.”
“It’s all right with me,” she said. “How did the Mae West business come out?”
I didn’t know what, if anything, Phil had said about Mae West, and I didn’t want to put my mouth where it didn’t belong.
“Mae West?” I asked.
“Toby,” she said, with Lucy still yelling in the background. “I can’t ask him. He doesn’t even know I know, but I know. I knew about it when it happened before we were married. Phil doesn’t know I know.”
I wished I hadn’t called.
“It came out fine,” I said. “Phil’s-”
“I know,” she said. “He is a good man, and he works too hard and cares too much and weighs too much and will have a heart attack just like your father if he’s not careful, and he’s not going to be careful.”
“That’s about it,” I agreed.
“Come over for dinner first on Saturday and then you can take the boys,” she said. “Try to be here by five.”
She hung up and I went through the mail. Five letters. Two were junk mail, one selling magic supplies and the other subscriptions to cartoon magazines. The third was from the Internal Revenue Service. I put it in the top drawer with the forms I still hadn’t filled out. The fourth letter was a hand-written thank-you note from Cecil B. De Mille. It was nice and simple, just “Thank you. C.B.”
The last letter was the mystery. I turned it over two or three times and looked at the return address in the corner. There was no doubt. The address was not off some copying machine. It was marked personal and for me. I pulled out my Tahitian letter opener and carefully slit the top, wondering who was writing to me from the White House in Washington.
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