BEg2 brief summary of chapter 25

[Mark Kohut]

We have to smile or more at the name of the shooting range, yes. *Sense and
Sensibility *and
where Jane Austen lives in this social Austenesque (sic. A little. All the
flirting and doing) and
gradations of money and status.


On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:49 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maxine meets up with Cornelia (Mrs Slagiatt) for some shopping at
> Loehmann’s.
>
> Gets bored soon after they separate (to meet up at 1pm near the registers)
>
> Goes to shooting range Sensibility (mentioned in ch 18, pg 199 of Nook
> edition)
>
> Pretends she’s shooting Windust
>
> Meets Randy (from the wine cellar in ch17) on her way out and sits down for
> chitchat
>
> Lunch with Cordelia at a deli, a bit of Cordelian  life/love story
>
> Cordelia mentions her husband Rocky (Slagiatt) is worried because Maxine
> (to his eye) shows signs of distress, but that he’s reluctant to interfere.
>
> Maxine decided to confide a little - the existence but only in vaguest
> terms the nature of the rooftop video.
>
> Cordelia recommends Maxine take it to some dude named Chandler Platt, (not
> Bing unfortunately,) the name of whom she recognizes with a modicum of
> distaste.
>
> But she goes to Platt’s law office & shows him the video.
>
> Then he leaves her with an intern who regales her with some original rap.
>
> Having made a call, he comes back & tells her whatever is about to happen
> is going to be permitted to happen. Asks her to leave via the rear
> entrance.
>
> For distraction she heads to Saks, but meets up with  Emma Levin, Ziggy’s
> Krav Maga teacher, and then with her beau Naftali the ex-Mossad guy.
>
> She drops a hint about wanting to get out of town, in case he’s in the
> know, but he refers to most rumors being unfounded - and flirts with her
> until Emma reins him in.
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