Play It as It Lays

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"NOTHING'S WRONG," she repeated to Les Goodwin on the telephone.

"I know something's wrong."

"Nothing."

"O.K.," he said finally. "All right. I'm coming out alone on Monday, meet my plane at four."

"I can't."

"I want to talk to you, Maria. I want to see you,"

"Monday night," she said. "Listen. You make me happy.”

She hung up very fast then because she did not want to find herself telling him why she could not meet his flight.