A dark pickup truck was idling by the driveway when they came out.

Her aunt said there was a special wedding gift waiting in the back of it, and asked her to come and see.

And the moment Vivienne stepped near the truck, hands seized her from behind, and covered her mouth, and it was done.

They took her to an abandoned barn far out in the countryside, and put her in the cellar beneath it, and there, for three days, her aunt came down the stairs again and again with the same demand: write a letter saying you ran off with another man, and I will let you go.

Vivienne refused.