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Ambrose laughed, “No, nothing like that. Infidelity is not
the question.”
“Then what is it?”
“If you were young and did something and it came back to
haunt you years later, if it really was nothing in the grand
scheme of things but someone wanted to make it important,
how would you handle it?”
“Could I just kill whoever was so damn interested in what I
did when I was a kid?” she asked.
“Not an option, Lydia.”
“All right then. I suppose I’d say ‘sorry, I was young’. If
that didn’t work then I’d spin the hell out of it until everyone
was so dizzy they didn’t know what they were looking at.”
Ambrose smiled. She was so wise. He said: “You look
particularly lovely tonight, my dear.”
He kissed his wife and counted himself a lucky man. Lydia
kissed him back and then looked out the window again. Now,
she was really worried.
***
Josie swayed with the pitch and roll as the Molokai ferry made
its way across the blustery ocean. Her head rested against the
wall, her arms were crossed, and her feet planted on the worn
floor inside the cabin she shared with a few other travelers.
This time Stephen made no attempt to accompany her and she
was glad. He could spend his time hunting down a chemist to
look at the medicine packets and she would have some time to
think.
Josie thought about Judge Mohr’s understanding of
Hannah’s predicament, his concern for Emily’s state of mind
since her episode in the jungle, and his admiration for the plan
Josie had given him for Emily’s care when she got to Hermosa
Beach. She couldn’t have asked for a better judge. She only