His students keep uncovering more of David’s shady behavior in the wake of Jane’s death: the letter from David’s acquaintance assuring him that it is possible to die from eating too much food, the letter from an unknown person telling David he will be “judged in the afterlife” for covering up a crime, the letter from Jane’s spy telling David his “silence can’t be bought.” There’s also the oddness of David’s continuing to insist that Jane had died of natural causes, decades after anybody was suggesting otherwise. It crops up in weird places—speeches, newspaper articles, letters—as David ages.
