“Do you know they’ve fired Jerry Baumeister?” “I don’t even know who he is.” “He is, or was,” Mary explained, “in the office of Educational Exchange.” “What’s his problem? Pink or lavender?” For a moment she would gladly have thrown Fuller himself to McLeod’s wolves. “Lavender,” she forced herself to reply. Again, he said nothing. He seemed to be searching his memory, trying perhaps to recall whether Jerry Baumeister had been one of the department’s “summer bachelors,” the type known to make a pass at another man while his own wife was up in Maine. “Fuller,” she said, as evenly as she could,
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