Chapter 12 Summary

Archer pull into Sylvia Lennox's driveway and the car is met by a young man who Elizabeth introduces as Tony Lashman, Sylvia's secretary. Elizabeth goes into the house to see her mother and Archer stays outside with Tony. The secretary talks animatedly with Lew about his involvement with Mrs. Lennox and his own plans to return to school to pursue photography. Lew questions Tony about Laurel. Tony says that the two of them used to play tennis when she would come to stay with her grandmother. Elizabeth enters the room as Tony is telling Archer about the Lennox family fortune and quietly tells Archer that Sylvia would like to see him.

Elizabeth leaves Archer alone with her mother and Archer discovers that Sylvia is very much like her daughter and granddaughter. She is a candid woman who takes no nonsense. Their pleasantries turn...