After college, she got a job with a high-end real estate firm in Westport and did very well, spending weekends at the family house in Watch Hill. Watch Hill is either New England money so old it needs a walker to circulate, or “new” New York money, meaning the families have owned homes there for less than two hundred years. Westerly is a granite quarry town settled by Italian immigrant stonemasons who made beautiful churches and big Sunday dinners. In Watch Hill, money works for people, and in Westerly, people work for money. If people in Watch Hill go to Westerly, it’s usually for pizza, but
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