“I never saw Belle again. All I know is hearsay from an old buddy of mine at Pacific Redwood Hospital—and it ain’t good hearsay. Her husband divorced her and ultimately skipped the country with the family assets. He had been suspicious of Belle for months, ever since he had spotted some condoms in her purse. That, of course, is further irony: it was only because therapy had curbed her lethal self-destructiveness that she was willing to use condoms in her affairs.
