“Do you treat all this gossip and hearsay with the same force with which you’re handling Vanner and his novel?” “Dear, no. I wouldn’t be able to tend to my business if I had to respond to every idiocy published in every afternoon rag. It takes too much time to keep track of all the rumors and deny them. But Vanner is different. What he wrote about my wife and me is different. And his reach is different.
Hmm. How is Vanner different than Andrew’s so-called friends and their gossip? Seems like it’s personal between Bevel and Vanner.
