CHAPTER 57

GREEN MONKEY

Malila returned from the interview feeling angry, despondent, and surprised to find a pale blue envelope on actual paper slipped under her door.

It read:

Lieutenant Colonel Eustace T. Jourdaine

requests the pleasure of your company to dinner

at Le Singe Vert,

this evening, 30 May, at 20:00.

A driver will be provided.

This is a public affair, Malila. Colonel Jourdaine isn’t just interested in you as a political tool. You see that, I hope!

Don’t gush, Edie.

What better time than now? You are on every net’cast in the country. People know...

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