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Dona
Alice ruined this opportunity by going to see Youssef in prison alone. After telling him why she was there, Youssef told Alice that the authorities would not believe him; that he was trying to save his own skin. He even told her that the authorities would question why she went to visit him in prison since she claimed to have never met him or even know who he was. They would assume that she went to visit him because she wanted him to lie for her. It is after this visit that Alice returns home instead of to the hotel with Aunt Maude. Feeling trapped, because she relizes that even if the police were to believe that she did not actually murder John, she was guilty of collusion, she begins to destroy the apartment. Exhausted by her anger she goes to bed. She is awakened the next morning by the police pounding on the door, Lucy/Sophie/Alice has set sail for Spain and the opportunity is lost.
Emily
The "she must be going mad" trope in these books has worn thin. It's a weak plot device that allows the "villain" to get away with whatever it is the villain wants to get away with.
Jerie
Yes, I was thinking it was just a perfect storm; Lucy wouldn't have been able to destroy Alice's life without Alice's reactions and inaction.
Marina
my thoughts exactly.
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