She closes her eyes. Her mind relaxes, bringing her, unexpectedly, back to the Dunwitty Institute. To her sister Delphine, her only visitor the entire time she was there. I’m sorry, she’d said. And then she said more: that she’d been in free fall since George died. That it had not been the first time, with her and Peter; that they’d been intimate, too, when they were young. All the way back when she first introduced Alice to Peter, for her coming-out party.
