Chapter 31

“I don’t know about all of you,” she said, “but I find this time of year so stressful, preparing the house for the Hamptons’ season. Do you frequent the Hamptons?” she asked Quinn.

“Ah, no, ma’am, we’re football players so we spend the summer in training camps and preseason games around the country.”

“Oh, right,” she said. Quinn could see she was mentally crossing them off her list.

“But surely if you could, you’d be in the Hamptons.”

“Oh, I don’t know, I’m more of a Jersey Shore guy myself,” Tam said. “I’ve spent some of the best moments of my life there.”

He looked away, sadly Quinn thought, as if to add, “and some of the worst.”

“Well, then, you must be a Jersey boy,” Jennifer said. It didn’t sound like a compliment

“Close. I’m from Philly.”

“And where do your people live on the Main Line?”

“My people,” Tam said, smiling, “have done very well for themselves in this world, but they are hardly Main Liners.”