Prologue

What’s the MM for?

Martin.

I like a man to have a middle name. Girls don’t usually have them. I’m just plain Edna.

I wouldn’t say “plain.”

You know how to make pretty speeches.

I bet you’re used to them.

There’s another one. I’m not so used to them that I don’t like to hear them, especially from people whom I think they’re sincere.

I don’t say things unless I mean them.

I’m glad of that.

Talking about speeches, you ought to heard the speech Carl Williams, made when he give me this bag. At the banquet, I mean. I guess I blushed, the things he said about me. A lot more than I deserve.