Chapter 89
“We saw a woman at the gas station, didn’t we, dear?” she went on, addressing herself to Stephen.
He chuckled.
“Heavens!” Mrs. Ledbetter exclaimed. “She was the ugliest woman I think I’ve ever seen. I didn’t realize people could be so ugly. Then she opened her mouth and started talking and, good Lord, those teeth! She was missing her two front teeth, and the rest of them—well, let’s just say that they can restore the Sistine Chapel, but they’re never going to restore those teeth on that poor woman. I think I was actually frightened a little. But she was the friendliest woman I’ve ever met, and she carried on with her Southern drawl, and her y’alland I reckonand oh shucks!and she was the sweetest thing. We were lost, weren’t we, dear? Jackie was taking us to that Civil War cemetery, and we had quite lost the way. It was in Oklahoma or something.”
“Okolona,” I said.