Penny Pierce would not mince words in her reply. (“Hi yourself. Remember you? Who could forget sixty times in—what was it?—six or seven weeks? If it’s a summer job you want, it’s yours.”) In addition to the frame-shop job, Eddie would, of course, be Mrs. Pierce’s lover. The summer of ’60 would start out with Eddie staying in a guest bedroom of Mrs. Pierce’s newly acquired property on First Neck Lane, until such a time as he found suitable lodging of his own. But they became lovers before he found
