I wanted her to say Friday.

I found out on Friday. I would have believed it.

I would have taken it home and built a whole year on it.

She did not lie, and it is the one thing she did in the entire nine years that was straightforwardly honest, and it is what ended us.

Part Eleven: What He Was Selling

I want to set out what Gerald Rask was actually doing, because it is less exciting than people expect and considerably more instructive.

He was not running an intelligence operation.