Chapter 4

Thirty minutes later, donning a plush pink Terry-cloth robe,Nora descended the sprawling staircase of connor's eleven thousand square foot, three storey neoclassical colonial. Even by the standards of Briar cliff Manor and the other surrounding towns of Westchester, his home was impressive.

It was also impeccably furnished every room a superb blending of form and function , style and comfort. The very best New York city antique shops meet the best of Connecticut eleish van Breems, New Canaan Antiques, the silk purse, the Cellar .Signature works by Monet , Hudson River school star Thomas Cole, Magritte .A Goerge]]]secretary in the library that had once been owned by J.p.Morgan. A humidor ,originally presented to Castro by Richard Nixon, with provenance documentation. A walk in wine cellar that held four thousand bottles, and Was nearly full.