Anger [antikvár]

Chapter I Ned Fraser was forty and thoüght of himself as a "confirmed bachelor" when an unexpected event catapulted him into marriage. Until that morning when an old friend of his mother's dragged him to a musicale at the Copley Plaza, insisting that he simply had to hear Anna Lindstrom, Ned had considered himself a contented man with no wish to make radical changes in his life. His job was absorbing-he had recently become president of the State Street Trust-Boston was rieh in music and for that he had a sustaining passión; and for the rest, he played court tennis three times a week, and belonged to the Tavera Club which provided him with good conversation with men of various capacities and interests. Women did not interest him very much, especially since a rather lackluster love affair had ended a few months earlier, leaving him with the conviction that sex was an overrated pleasure, at least if the woman involved had very little to offer beyond that. He and Janet had partéd friends, and she was now engaged to a New York lawyer, much to Ned s relief. He intended to enjoy life, "fancy-free" as he put it, and to keep feeling out, except where Fonzi, his dachsund, was concemed. But Ernesta Aldrich had been insistent and she was rather a dear, so Ned had agreed to meet her at the Cop-