“It’s Arrington; how are you feeling today?”
“Well enough to go home.”
“Really?
“Well, I ache all over, but apart from that, I’m fine.”
“Want me to come get you?”
“Dino’s giving me a lift.”
“I’ll drop by to see you a little later; maybe feed you some chicken soup.”
“Sounds good.”
“See you.” She hung up.
“That Arrington?” Dino asked.
“Yep.”
“Looks like you might have something good going there, pal.”
“Maybe. Sometimes she gets a little crazy.”
“Only sometimes? You’re a lucky man; I could tell you about crazy.”
“You found an apartment yet?”
“Yeah, and they’ve accepted our offer.”
“How much?”
Dino lowered his voice. “You ready for this? Seven hundred thou and change.”
“Seven hundred thousand?”
“And change.”
“You have a very generous father-in-law.”
Dino shook his head. “He just wants her to shut up about it, like me. He’d pay twice that, if she’d shut up about it.”
“Where is the apartment?”
“East Sixty-sixth, between Fifth and Madison.”
“Uptown!”
“Yeah. We’ve still got to go before the co-op board.”
“Relax, they’ll be delighted to have a cop in the building. You might let drop that you can get the patrol frequency increased on the block.”
“Good idea. I can do that, too; I’ll have a foot patrolman by there every hour.”
“How are you going to dress?”
“In a suit, I guess.”