The Passionate Attention Of An Interesting Man - Plot & Excerpts
No, I’m slipping off-topic. The time: late. The place: Lyle meets Jutter at Mary’s. The boys: one grinning masculine youth and one mysteriously threatening slightly older guy. Lyle was mysterious not because of any slithery attitudes, but because he was so seldom seen around town. His customers at Hickock Motors never spoke to or even glimpsed Lyle. All they got was Miss McEwen, the young woman at the front desk. Legally, she had just become Mrs. Raimondi, but she continued as Miss McEwen because that better described her business manner, which was concise and unyielding. Short to the edge of the brusque: Miss. Pointed and fast-moving, no waster of time: McEwen. It was she who passed on to you the details of the repair assessment and warned you what the bill would run to, and if you were foolish enough to resent any part of it—or even ask a passing but unnecessary question or two—she would fix you with a look and say, “We have a policy, sir.” Worse, if you asked to speak to Mr.
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