I turned the pages and scanned the hand-ruled columns, and the dates ran back a full decade, each entry recording a monthly transfer of exactly nine thousand dollars.

The recipient on every line was the same.

The Tagus Clinic, Lisbon.

Beside each transfer a clerk had noted a patient identification number.

Patient 104.

At the back, tucked into a leather pocket, were several folded documents, and my hand was steady though my skin had gone cold as I unfolded the top sheet.

It was an intake form from the clinic, dated ten years earlier.

The name on the primary patient line was Rita Delgado.