Summary

In “The Disappearance, Day One, Saturday, December 4, 1926,” Nan assumes her reader knows Agatha “did not stay missing” (66). She would marry a man “much better suited to her” and live to old age (66).

Nan called Archie. He informed her Agatha had published a story about her in the paper. In the story, the “main character pushes” her husband’s lover “over a cliff” (68). Though Archie was unnerved on the phone, Nan was convinced Agatha “would be all right” (68).

While packing her things for Harrogate, Nan thought about Agatha. She studied the claddagh on her hand, remembering the day she told Finbarr their “child was lost to [them]” (70). Afterwards, she sent him away, though she never blamed him. A few months ago, she had written to inform him of her impending marriage to Archie.

In “Here Lies Sister Mary,” while in “in Ireland...