Chapter 45
“That’s nice,” she said. “I’ll see you next Saturday.”
“Are you coming to Jacksonville?”
“No,” she said, “George and Mike are going to fly you up here just to see me.”
“Okay.”
“Then I’ll leave it at that,” she said.
We shook hands and she went downstairs. We followed a few minutes later with Robbie in tow and found Charles and Philip were still sitting, talking quietly with Mrs. Barnett.”
Charles,” I said, “would either you or Philip be kind enough to give us a lift to the nearest mall? We need to buy this little guy some clothes, but we’ve been in such a whirlwind since we got back from the mountains that we really haven’t had time to shop for him.”
“We can do better than that,” Philip said. He pulled some keys from his pocket and handed them to me. “You can take my car.”
“Are you sure?” I said.
“Don’t worry about it,” he said. “It’s just a piece of machinery.”
“Can you find Lenox Square?” Charles said.