“When was the last time you saw or spoke with cheap chanel 2.55 bag him?”
     “Let me see. Oh, yes, he attended our winter gala. Second Saturday in December. I remember I tried, again, to convince him to join the Guild. It’s a hefty membership fee, but has lovely benefits. He’s the type who enjoys the opera, who knows and appreciates it, but isn’t interested in funding. Tight-fisted. I’ve seen him come or go to chanel 2.55 online shop performances over time. Always on foot. Doesn’t even spring for a car. And always alone.”
     “Did he ever speak to you at all about his personal life?”
     “Let me think.” Crossing her legs, she swung one foot back and forth. “Drawing on the personal is an essential tool of the wheedle. A longtime widower, travels a great deal. He claims to have chanel purses outlet attended performances in all the great opera houses of the world. Prefers Italian operas. Oh!”
     She held up a finger, closed her eyes just a moment as if to pull together a thought. “I remember, some years ago, pumping him a bit—as he’d had a couple of glasses of wine, I thought I might slide that membership fee out of him. chanel bags for sale I had him discussing whether true appreciation for art and music is inherent or learned. He told me he’d learned his appreciation from his mother when he was a boy. I said that was, arguably, inherent. But no, he said, though she had been the only mother he’d known, she had been his father’s second wife. She had been a chanel bags soprano.”
     “A performer.”
     “I asked him just that. What did he say? It was a bit odd. She had been, but circumstances had denied her, and time had run out. I’m sure that’s what he said. I asked him what had happened, but he excused himself and abruptly walked away.”
     “Would Lyle know when Pierpont last picked up anything from the box office?”
     “He louis vuitton bags outlet would, and I asked him, anticipating you. Just last week.”
     “How does he pay?”
     “Cash, Lyle tells me. Always, and yes, that’s unusual. But we don’t quibble about eccentricities. He always wears black-tie to the theater, which is also a bit eccentric, I suppose. So do his guests.”