“She had a lover?” Gentleman friend was a dumb thing to call someone. Chester sputtered again. People were so odd about sex. On the one hand, lots of fluids were going back and forth, so if you thought about that part of it, I could see where the gross factor came in, but that wasn’t the issue. It was something no one wanted to talk about; they were more comfortable discussing or witnessing violence than sex. I’d read a lot about it.

