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I said, “Had she talked about issues with older men before?”
Twin head shakes.
“Had she been married before?”
“No idea,” said Bowman. “She never really told us much about herself.”
The Midwest.
Demarest smiled. “Not for lack of gentle prying on our part.”
Bowman said, “Look where that got her.”
I said, “What was Meagin’s attitude about Doug making so much money?”
“Same as with the house,” said Bowman. “Amused. Like it was absurd.”
Demarest said, “Like what can you actually do with all that?”
Milo said, “She knew he was rich when she married him.”
“But not when she met him,” said Bowman. “She told us she thought he was some kind of gofer. Money wasn’t her focus.”
“What was?”
She turned and looked me over. “This is sounding more like therapy than an investigation.”
I said, “They’re not unrelated.”
“Is that so? I suppose I can see that.”
Demarest said, “From what I could tell her focus was feeling free.” She glanced at Bowman.
Bowman said, “Absolutely. But isn’t that any sane person’s goal?”
Demarest said, “She joked about it. Trying on cougar fur. I laughed.” Downcast, as if confessing a sin.
Bowman said, “I laughed, too. When your friend jokes, you laugh.”
I said, “Doug was also much younger than Meagin. Eleven years between them.”
“Really?” said Demarest. “I assumed less…”
Bowman said, “We both did. Wow. What would that make him—thirty?”
“Twenty-nine.”
“A baby. Unbelievable, all that money at that age. Meagin said he was a bit younger, I was figuring a couple of years. Until she said that, I’d imagined some white-haired golf-playing dude. Twenty-nine.Wow.We reallydidn’tknow her.”
Milo said, “Did she ever tell you how she met Doug?”
“Some sort of pickup,” said Bowman. “She brushed that off, too. Maybe she was into the Madame X thing. Maybe she felt it gave her allure, I don’t know. Not that she’d need it, she had a fantastic body and a face like an actress.”
Milo said, “Did she ever get into her and Doug’s relationship?”
“You suspect he did it.”
“Not at all. At this point we don’t think anything.”
