Summary

In the ninth chapter, Jean flips through Noëlle’s datebook and sees a new entry he never saw before written in a light blue ink much paler than the original ink. The note said that she had seen Sancho at La Caravelle on the second of July, and that she never should have gone. Jean wonders if more hidden messages might be contained with invisible ink, waiting to show up and reveal truths about Noëlle. 15 years prior to the present, he had walked by a garage he had walked by dozens of times before, but this time he noticed the sign, which said it belonged to R. Béavioure. Jean realized this was the true spelling of “Behaviour,” which he had only ever heard Gérard pronounce. Jean went inside and asked the man if he was Roger. When the man...