Betty and the Fitzgerald stories: Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Betty Draper (January Jones)
Arthur Case recommends 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' in this episode, and Betty is later seen with the collection. The story is about a family sitting on a mountain-sized diamond and hiding it from the world. Betty already lives in a house with a secret that size.
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Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Scribner's 1960 collection of Fitzgerald stories, named for the one about a father trying to win his daughter back from her aunt and uncle. Fitzgerald wrote 'Babylon Revisited' in 1930, and Don, as a father with a secret, should read it twice.
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