Part 7, Tuesday Summary

The next morning, Christmas Eve, Martyn starts to worry when Alex hasn't shown up when she said she would. He becomes even more worried the later it gets, and eventually goes over to Alex's house. He sees that the car isn't there and the snow hasn't been disturbed - the car has evidently been gone for some time. He also sees that the house is empty, and makes his way home, a frightening idea forming in his head. He goes up to Dad's room and searches it, discovering that all the lawyer letters, the checkbook, the bank card, and some of Dad's clothes are gone. The idea growing in his head becomes clearer. Alex and her mum (the two actresses) have somehow, he thinks, defrauded him of the entire sixty thousand dollars. At first he can't believe this might be true...