Part Six: The Longest Night

We got a cab back.

Wendy did not stop talking for the entire nineteen minutes, and none of it was about the girl, which I understood later was because her mind had put the girl in a box marked some woman and could not conceive of any other contents.

She said she would go to a lawyer with me.

She said she would tell Arthur tonight.

She said, twice, “In this family we don’t do that.”