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"Listen, Sally, please I’ht I couldn’t tell you, please understand that You were co to trust me I couldn’t take a chance that you’d react the way you’re reacting now"

She laughed Just laughed She said nothing at all

Dillon rose, saying, "I’ for a walk I’ll be back to make dinner in an hour"

Sally watched him stride down the narrow trail toward the water She supposed he was a fine-lookingas Ja muscles, but she supposed some people did

"Sally"

She didn’t want to turn back to hiive hi words that made so much sense to him and had utterly destroyed her

No, she’d rather watch Dillon, or the two boats that were rocking lazily in the s waters It would be sunset soon The water was beginning to be the color of cherries

"Sally, I can’t let you leave Besides, where would you go? I don’t knohere you’d be safe You thought you’d have a refuge in The Cove You didn’t Your dear auntie Amabel was in on it"

"No, that’s impossible"

"Believe it I have no reason to lie to you David and I both visited her after I got on ain She claimed you’d seen me unconscious and decided to run away She said that you had probably run to Alaska, that you couldn’t go to Mexico because you didn’t have a passport She said that you’d been ill--in an institution--as a matter of fact and that you were still unstable, still very weak in the head My gut tells me that your auntie is in this mess up to her eyeballs"

"She welco, Ja"