Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter 1: Regrettably

Chapter 2: It Begins

Chapter 3: Two Distinct Little Girls

Chapter 4: Do You Know Mr. Salisbury?

Chapter 5: As Opposed to Sing Sing

Chapter 6: Not What I Signed Up For

Chapter 7: Let’s Get This Over With

Chapter 8: I’d Rather Not Go Into It

Chapter 9: Poulet à la Jane

Chapter 10: I’ll Figure It Out

Chapter 11: Pretend No One’s Watching

Chapter 12: Scene of the Crime

Chapter 13: Dinner Is Served

Chapter 14: None of My Business

Chapter 15: Company

Chapter 16: The Lay of the Land

Chapter 17: Weird If I Come, Too?

Chapter 18: I Only Have Myself to Blame

Chapter 19: New Horizons

Chapter 20: TMI

Chapter 21: It’s Tricky, Though

Chapter 22: In the Same Boat

Chapter 23: The Pros and Cons

Chapter 24: As Ready as I’ll Ever Be

Chapter 25: Are You Sitting Down?

Chapter 26: Good Cop/Bad Cop

Chapter 27: Count Me In

Chapter 28: And the Goal Here Is What?

Chapter 29: The Mission Is What?

Chapter 30: Holding Me Harmless

Chapter 31: The Morning After

Chapter 32: Sidelong Glances

Chapter 33: You Must Be Mrs. Salisbury

Chapter 34: States of Mind

Chapter 35: Christmas Miracle

Chapter 36: Case Closed

Chapter 37: A Reunion for Sure

Chapter 38: Double Date

Chapter 39: Memorandum and Order, Judicial Department, On Motion

Chapter 40: Window Table

Chapter 41: I Suppose It Wouldn’t Kill Me to Take a Look

Chapter 42: Woman to Woman

Chapter 43: Dream Dresses

Chapter 44: Thank You, Frances FitzRoy

Chapter 45: Ladies’ Lunch

Chapter 46: We Four

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Elinor Lipman

Copyright

About the Publisher