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that time of the morning, and that’s when I knew . . . That’s when I knew
that Megan wasn’t there. And I started to think . . . I started . . .” The
words catch, and I feel wretched for doubting him.
“She told me the last time she’d seen Megan was at their Pilates class
on Friday night. That’s when I started to panic.”
After I hang up the phone, I think about how, if you didn’t know him,
if you hadn’t seen how he was with her, as I have, a lot of what he’d said
would not ring quite true.
MONDAY, JULY 22, 2013
MORNING
I feel quite befuddled. I slept soundly but dreamily and this morning I am
struggling to wake up properly. The hot weather has returned and the
carriage is stifling today, despite being only half full. I was late getting
up this morning and didn’t have time to pick up a newspaper or to check
the news on the Internet before I left the house, so I am trying to get the
BBC site on my phone, but for some reason it is taking forever to load.
At Northcote a man with an iPad gets on and takes the seat next to me.
He has no problems at all getting the news up, he goes straight to the
Daily Telegraph site and there it is, in big, bold letters, the third story:
MAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH MEGAN HIPWELL DISAPPEARANCE.
I get such a fright that I forget myself and lean right over to get a
better look. He looks up at me, affronted, almost startled.
“I’m sorry,” I say. “I know her. The missing woman. I know her.”
“Oh, how awful,” he says. He’s a middle-aged man, well-spoken and
well-dressed. “Would you like to read the story?”
“Please. I can’t get anything to come up on my phone.”
He smiles kindly and hands me the tablet. I touch the headline and the
story comes up.
A man in his thirties has been arrested in connection with
the disappearance of Megan Hipwell, twenty-nine, the
Witney woman who has been missing since Saturday, 13
July. Police were not able to confirm whether the man
arrested is Megan Hipwell’s husband, Scott Hipwell, who
was questioned under caution on Friday. In a statement