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spring of Malcolm Frazier, a man who claimed three wives in his span of 67 years. A harsh man of enormous sexual appetites, he was forced to endure the anguish of impotency for the last 20 years of his life. He was known for venting his frustration with that condition on his two sons, Charlie more so than the favored Theodore. |
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The women were equally at odds with their place in space and time. Peggy was a blamer. Others were always at fault for her misfortunes. Life, in her view, was unfair; all men were bastards, secretive and users, so she in turn used them. Never had she owned up to her responsibility for the sorry state of her life. |
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Betty Frazier, or Betty Elizabeth, as she began insisting others call her following her marriage to Theodore, was herself an accomplished huntress. She had successfully tracked the heir to the Frazier fortune through a social jungle that reduced lesser women to the role of mere bystanders in the competition to claim half of all he had gained through his father's death. |
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She was a willowy brunette with willowy qualities. She bent, but she never broke. Her adversaries as well as her few friends knew this. Tall and attractive, she possessed a fatal kind of cultured elegance and a steel heart to go along with her killer instinct. She would, as Charlie already knew, present an even more |
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