The Bedford Hills manor was bathed in the warm, golden light of late spring as two hundred guests gathered on the grand terrace for Dowager Evelyn Cross's seventy-ninth birthday. The stone balustrades were draped with cascading white roses and fragrant jasmine. In the garden below, union longshoremen, university scholars, and old family friends mingled over vintage champagne and artisan cheeses. In the center of the drawing room, seated in her…
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