After the Homewrecker Left
On the day my wife, Adele Bellamy, rang the opening bell on Merrow Street to take her company public, my daughter and I sat in the audience.
When my daughter was invited onstage to speak, she took the microphone and asked me in her small, childish voice, "Daddy, did you really get Mommy by being a homewrecker?"
The hushed hall erupted as if a boulder had crashed into still water, and countless camera flashes swung toward my pale face.
"Mr. Linwood, is what your daughter said true?"
"If his own daughter said it, it has to be true! That's a juicy high-society secret. Bet he never expected his own kid to be the one to spill it."
"Haven't you heard? Ms. Bellamy used to have a childhood swee