It was the deepest kind of wisdom about the human heart, and about mine in particular.”

Chapter 16 — The Trap That Wasn’t Meant to Hurt

Mr.

Vance reached over and touched the small safe-deposit key where it lay in the box, and his voice shifted into something more precise, the register of a man explaining the machinery of a thing he clearly admired.

“There is another reason for the trap, Evelyn, and I want to be very clear about it, because the word trap frightened you and it should not.

The trap was never meant to hurt you.