Booking In. Jack Batten

the parts on three floors, then they test-drove the finished product on the roof. Down here where we’re sitting, this was the showroom.”

      “Aren’t you just a fount of local history.”

      “I got more if you’d care to hear it.”

      “I’ll coast for now, thank you.”

      Annie had almost finished her café au lait.

      “Are you going to eat either of those other two biscotti on the plate?” I said.

      “If you confine yourself to just one of them and leave the last cookie for me,” Annie said, “I’ll tell you something that might pique your interest.”

      “Some more Grantham family material?”

      “This is guaranteed juicy.”

      “Just one biscotti,” I said. “And the revelation has got to be juicy as promised.”