She said Evelyn had come to see her, at the office, about ten days earlier.

That she had been in some distress.

That she had said, in effect, that she had realized she could not do it — the family, the visibility, the scrutiny, the name — and that she wanted to go before it got worse.

And she said Evelyn had asked, specifically and with some force, that nobody look for her.

And then Eleanor Vance said the sentence that I lived inside for six years.

She said: “Marcus.