Can You Keep a Secret?: A Novel (на англ. яз.) ISBN 978-0-440-24190-4 0-440-24190-1

A woman came up to her. "Can I have a light?" she said. And it turned out the woman was Brigid. The obnoxious woman from the bridal shower last summer. "Carrie?" she said. "Is that you?" "Brigid!" Carrie said. "What are you doing here?" "Skiing," Brigid said. And then, glancing around as if she were afraid of being overheard, she said, "With my husband. And no kids. We left the kids at my mother's house." "Weren't you, um, pregnant?" Carrie asked. "Miscarriage," Brigid said. She glanced around again. "Say, you wouldn't happen to have an extra cigarette in addition to that match, would you?" "Sure," Carrie said. "I haven't smoked for years. Years. But I need this." She inhaled deeply. "When I used to smoke, I only smoked Marlboro Reds." Carrie gave her an evil smile. "Of course you did." She dropped her cigarette on the sidewalk and mashed it with her boot. "Can you keep a secret?" Brigid asked. "Yeah. .," Carrie said. "Well." Brigid took another deep drag and blew the smoke out her nose. "I didn't go home last night." "Uh huh," Carrie said, thinking, Why are you telling me this? "No ...»