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He pointed. ' Catherine turned and saw a slight, frail-looking man in a uniform with corporal's stripes. He was screaming at a man wearing a general's stars. 'Fuck what the casting director said. I'm up to my ass in generals. ' He raised his hands in despair. ' 'Excuse me,' Catherine said. ' the little man said. 'You take over. I don't know what I'm doing here. I had a thirty-fivehundreddollara-year job in Dearborn editing a furniture trade magazine, and I was drafted into the Signal Corps and sent to write training films.

And, grinning, he lifted her hands in his and began slowly licking the sauce from her fingers, one by one. The other guests averted their eyes. Melina rose to her feet and turned to her host. ' The guests watched as she fled from the room. Demiris did not come home that night, or the next. When Spyros heard about the incident, he was livid. ' 'He can't help it,' Melina defended him. ' 'His nature? He's an animal! He should be put away. ' It was a question Melina Demiris had asked herself often in the still of the long, lonely nights she spent by herself.

Never should have married her, Demiris thought. It was a bad mistake . . Ten years earlier, the wedding of Melina Lambrou and Constantin Demiris had sent shock waves through business and social circles from Athens to the Riviera to Newport. What had made it so titillating was that only one month before the wedding the bride had been engaged to marry another man As a child, Melina Lambrou had dismayed her family by her willfulness. When she was ten, she decided she wanted to be a sailor. The family chauffeur found her at the harbor, trying to sneak aboard a ship, and brought her home in disgrace.