"Goldie, what are you trying to say? Are you accusing me of spreading rumors on purpose? I've been married into this family for almost twenty years. Don't you know what kind of person I am by now? If I had the time to make up rumors, I'd rather just beat that little vixen to death! Dad, Mom, did you hear that? Goldie has been completely bewitched by that vixen. He won't even acknowledge me, his sister-in-law, anymore. I'm telling you, in a few more days, he won't even recognize you two!"
Phoebe Huxley's temper flared. 'Just like Felix Thorne,' she thought, 'they both have the same rotten taste for those bewitching vixens.' Her sarcastic tirade made the expressions on Byron Thorne and Raina's faces darken even further.
