Ruby And Diamond Tennis Bracelet.
You only see the filth of Paris here. Why don't you
stay where other Americans stay?"
"Yet you could afford this?" you held out her bare left arm, which was
adorned with an exquisite diamond and ruby tennis bracelet in an 18k gold
setting. "This could pay for six months at the best hotel in Paris."
I was in the process of answering your excellent review of Chapter One when
I experienced the 'Blue Screen of Death' and lost everything I'd written.
When I got that straightened out and got back in here, you'd posted this
one. Just as well, I had a lot of "I can't tell you!"s in the first one.
You were incredibly perceptive, but answering you would give the story away.
Let me just say what I CAN tell you...yes, it's long. The fight had to
happen the way it did to get Pekita on the side of the bed she gets shot on
so that it happens in front of Sheffield. (You caught that, didn't you?
Good catch!) Don't forget the bracelet under the bed. They missed that
during their cleanup, and that is SUPREMELY important later. The real
reason that it was so long was to establish the fact that they loved each
other. You won't understand until the end of the book, but the whole story
hinges on that.