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To: Mel Fuller
From: Dolly Vargas
Subject: Au contraire
You are too precious. Are you trying to tell me you don't know that your John is one of
the Park Avenue Trents? I thought that was why you were so angry with him--I mean, aside
from the whole pretending-to-be-Max- Friedlander thing. After all, he introduced you to
his grandmother at that Lincoln Center benefit you reported on last month.
Although now that I think of it, I suppose he didn't tell you she was his grandmother, did
he? On account of his pretending to be Max. Oh, dear. No wonder you're so angry. He did
make a bit of a fool of you, didn't he? His credit cards were maxed out, he said? Well, I'm
sure he only told you that so he wouldn't have to pull one out. His cover would have been
blown for sure if that had happened, don't you think? Supposing you see the John Trent on
his Platinum Am Ex, instead of the Max Friedlander you were expecting? I have to admit, it's
a typical Trent trick. You know half their clan is in jail--John's own father amongst them.
And the rest of them are in rehab. Goodness, what chance did a smalltown girl like you have
amongst them? John's the worst, from what I hear--he got a job as a crime reporter so he could
go slumming whenever he felt like it, and not arouse suspicion that he's one of them. The Park
Avenue Trents, I mean. Why, I hear from Victoria Arbuthnot, who used to go out with him, you
know, that he's even pretending to be working on a novel. Poor little Mel. You should have kept
the Tiffany's box. Whatever was in it, you deserve it, for all embarrassment he's put you
through. Oh, well. I hear there's a sale at Barney's. Want to go? I'll buy you a scarf.
It might cheer you up....
XXXOOO
Dolly
To: Nadine Wilcock
From: Mel Fuller
Subject: That's it.
This is war.
He thinks just because he's a Trent of the Park Avenue Trents, he can trick people, and
use them for his own amusement, and get away with it? Not this time. Nobody goes slumming
with a Fuller of the Lansing, Illinois, Fullers. Nobody.
John Trent is about to get what's coming to him, but good.
Mel