Frances’s private income was an attraction, but Johnnie was infatuated. To court her officially, he had to wait two years until she was seventeen (nice girls didn’t date until they had “come out”), but the romance flourished privately. A friend who was in the same dorm with Frances at finishing school remembers her slipping out to make numerous steamy telephone calls to Johnnie “with a lot of writhing around.” “She was always a very sexy girl,” her friend says. “Johnnie, of course, was over the moon.” Anne Coke couldn’t compete with phone sex.
