Series: You don't belong among decent people, Clara, and no dress from Paris can hide a beggar's blood, Eleanor Montgomery said.

The silence in the drawing room stretched, thick and heavy, until General Albright finally broke it. His face was grim, etched with a mixture of [more…]

The following Sunday was a canvas of muted sorrow. A cold, autumnal rain fell ceaselessly over St. Jude’s Catholic Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland, turning the [more…]