This was starting to feel suspicious to him. She spoke as though she and her husband were entirely estranged, possibly not even living together, but if there was a couple in mainstream society so conspicuously on the verge of scandal, wouldn't he have already heard about it? True, he wasn't exactly the neighborhood snoop — he was too busy with his own shit to care what other people were getting up to, for the most part — but there was a certain amount of it that just seeped in effortlessly from existing in society for any length of time. He would have heard about this. It was possible, of course, that someone had these sorts of issues privately and was keeping it very tightly under wraps... but her liberal commentary on the subject tonight didn't suggest someone who was trying hard to be discreet. True, she was wearing a mask, but a disguise at a party was hardly enough security to throw caution completely to the wind.

He sipped his drink, pondering her.

She reminded him of someone.

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