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She looked over at Eve again “You’re thinking that I should have gone again o”

“Ms Barrister—”

But Elizabeth shook her head “You’re right, of course But she refused to confide in ht I should respect her privacy, as I always had I was never one of those hter’s diary”

“Diary?” Eve’s antenna vibrated “Did she keep one?”

“She always kept a diary, even as a child She changed the password in it regularly”

“And as an adult?”

“Yes She’d refer to it now and again—joke about the secrets she had and the people she kneould be appalled at what she’d written about them”

There’d been no personal diary in the inventory, Eve res could be as small as a woman’s thumb If the sweepers missed it the first time

“Do you have any of them?”

“No” Abruptly alert, Elizabeth looked up “She kept them in a deposit box, I think She kept them all”

“Did she use a bank here in Virginia?”

“Not that I’m aware of I’ll check and see what I can find out for you I can go through the things she left here”

“I’d appreciate that If you think of anything—anything at all—a name, a comment, no matter how casual, please contact me”

“I will She never spoke of friends, lieutenant I worried about that, even as I used it to hope that the lack of them would draw her back home Out of the life she’d chosen I even used one ofhe would be more persuasive than I”

“Who was that?”