Herbert, in absentia, had surprised Marilyn once more during their divorce proceedings, when the judge raised the issue of debt from the mortgage they had taken out on Lake Grove in order to buy a second house in Awadapquit, at an address she had never heard before. “It’s a mistake. We own Lake Grove outright,” she said. “You did, but then you borrowed against it,” her lawyer said, gently, as if Marilyn might just not understand finances. “You signed the papers, right here.”
