Wow!
They hadn't seen each other for twenty years.
They were taking the same classes at Ucla.
They weren't intimate, you can't say that.
This does not prevent them from falling into each other's arms at JFK airport.
Jeff Cook became an art dealer;
the narrator, whose name we will not know, is a failed writer.
Their plane to Frankfurt is delayed.
Cook invites his friend into the first class lounge.
He has something to tell her, which he has never told anyone.
The cocktails helping, the man is talkative.
A long time ago, Jeff saved a stranger from drowning on a beach in Santa Monica.
At the time, he was guarding the house of a famous actor whose identity we will discover on page 126. He would like his gesture to have been worth it.
Provided he didn't come to the aid of a bastard.
He learns that the survivor runs a gallery in Beverly Hills, manages to be hired by this Francis Arsenault and has an affair with his daughter by chance.
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