More on Chandler Wills Banning (Mrs. Plansky’s dad).

The condo had two bedrooms, Mrs. Plansky’s on the first floor and a guest room upstairs. There’d also been a small first floor study, but it had been converted into a bedroom for her father when … when how to put it? When he got thrown out of Arcadia Gardens? Close enough. Arcadia Gardens was an assisted-living place about forty-five minutes away, where her dad had passed two or three somewhat disruptive and expensive years, the expense borne willingly by Mrs. Plansky and the disruptiveness just borne. He’d had many disagreements with fellow residents and staff, although none violent—with the exception of the beer bottle incident—but the climax, as it were, had come, as it were, on account of his romantic life, of which Mrs. Plansky had been unaware for a long time and was now way too aware. It turned out he’d had a girlfriend, as he put it, or two in Arcadia Gardens, but on different floors and supposedly ignorant of each other’s existence. Both were named Polly, a set-up for trouble, but in the end trouble had come from somewhere else, much closer to home.
(Coming July 15)